An Edwardian silver-gilt presentation standing-cup, Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co. Ltd., London, 1909

the body chased with satyr figure-heads between vacant cartouches, on leaf-capped scrolling arms, on a spreading circular foot with husked rim, the cover engraved 'Picturegoer and Film Weekly "Gold Medal"', the foot engraved 'Awarded to Anna Neagle By Readers Vote In Their Annual Ballot For Her Performance in "The Courtney's of Curzon Street" 1947', 41.9cm., 16 1/2 in. high; together with a two-handled parcel-gilt silver trophy cup, Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co. Ltd., London 1921, Adam's form in Neo-classical taste; beaded leaf-capped loop handles, stiff-leaf embellished cover, body, and foot, on a spreading circular foot with husk rim, the centre engraved 'Picturegoer and Film Weekly "Gold Medal", Awarded to Anna Neagle By Readers Vote In Their Annual Ballot For Her Performance in "Park Lane" 1948'

The silvered example with clear marks to cover and body. Finial bent. Does not sit quite flat on an even surface. Otherwise good. The silver-gilt cup is very good gauge. Clear marks to cover and body. Rim of inner cover bruised. Gilding 'flaking' in a couple of places. Finial leaning slightly. At least one cartouche erased.
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Herbert Wilcox (1890-1977) and Anna Neagle (1904-1986), who married in 1943, were stalwarts of British cinema, he as a successful film producer and director, she as an actress in comedies and historical dramas and as a singer and dancer in musicals. They first worked together in 1932 and the climax of their collaboration came with a string of films, including Nell Gwynn (1934), Victoria the Great and its sequel, Sixty Glorious Years (1937 and 1938), in which she played Queen Victoria; the musicals Irene (1940), No, No, Nanette (1940) and Sunny (1941); I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945), a romance with Rex Harrison; and the dramas Piccadilly Incident (1946) and The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947), in both of which she co-starred with Michael Wilding.