"Piping Rock Club 1941 Sterling Silver Golf Trophy" (SOLD)
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Sz: 6 1/2"H x 5"W x 2 3/4"D
The Archibald G. McIlwaine Golf Cup
Won by Alexis C. Coudert & William H. Taft, II-60
Stamped on underside: Peter Guille Ltd New York/ Sterling
The Piping Rock Club has an 18-hole links-style golf course that was designed by Charles B. Macdonald.
It was the "Augusta of its Day" and boasted members like J. P. Morgan Jr., Benjamin Strong Jr., the first president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Percy Chubb, co-founder of the insurance company, Louis Comfort Tiffany, stained glass, Frank Nelson Doubleday, publishing, Condé Montrose Nast, publishing, William L. Harkness, Standard Oil, Frederic B. Pratt, George Dupont Pratt, Harold I. Pratt, Standard Oil heirs and philanthropists, W. Averell Harriman, future New York Governor, Payne Whitney, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and Vincent Astor.