A Victorian silver-gilt cup and cover, Hunt & Roskell Ltd, London, 1897

copied from a Paul de Lamerie original, richly cast and chased with carousing cherubs,  the inscription reads 'À L'AUTOMOBILE CLUB DE FRANCE, SOUVENIR DE SIR DAVID SALOMONS.' Another inscription, on the interior of the lid, reads '109.55 ^{oz. The original model of this Cup was made by Paul Lamerie.'}

Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, 2^nd Bt (1851-1925)

Good, the foot very slightly wobbly and the gilding very slightly rubbed; and there are two very small holes in the casting of the body For further information regarding this lot please contact the Silver department directly on +44(0)207.293.5100.
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The inscription reads 'À L'AUTOMOBILE CLUB DE FRANCE , SOUVENIR DE SIR DAVID SALOMONS.'

Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, 2^nd Bt (1851-1925) was the nephew of Sir David Salomons, 1st Bt (1797-1873), first Jewish Lord Mayor of London (1855) and a leading figure in the struggle for Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom, from whom he inherited the title and the estate of Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. The latter is now the Salomons Museum, a part of Canterbury Christ Church University.

Sir David, the 2^nd Bt, was educated at University College, London, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1874, the year in which he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple. From an early interest in science and mechanics he developed a passion for various modes of transport, becoming a pioneer of 'horseless vehicles.' On 15 October 1895 he helped to organize a show at Tunbridge Wells of a number of self-propelled vehicles, including a tricycle, which delighted an audience of nearly 10,000 people. Sir David, who during the same year had imported the first Peugeot car to Britain, became Vice President of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and was the founder in 1897 and first President of The Royal Automobile Club.

The design of this cup and cover is based on one of a small group of well-known Paul de Lamerie examples. One of these of 1742, formerly in the possession of Crichton Brothers, dealers in antique silver, is illustrated in Philip A.S. Phillips, Paul de Lamerie, B.T. Batsford Ltd, London, 1935, p. 107, pl. CXXXVIII.