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Leith Races - gold teapot
Unknown, 1910, Press cutting, Reproduction
Leith Races - gold teapot
Leith Races - gold teapot
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37800
Title
Page from Leith Miscellany, volume VIII, Leith Races - gold teapot
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Unknown
Date
1910
Type
Press cutting
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Reproduction
The gold teapot was the prize awarded in the '100 guineas' at Leith, 31st July 1736. It was won by 'Mr Croft's black mare, Legacy'. It sold at Christie's for £38,000 on 5.7.1972.
The illustration of St Mary's Roman Catholic School is from a brochure published for the Conference of the Catholic Young Men's Society (CYMS) at Leith 14-16.5.1910.
The third picture is the crest and motto of the Order, from 'The Oblate Fathers in Leith; 1849 to 1984.' Typescript history of the work at St Mary's Star of the Sea. The Oblates of Mary Immaculate is a religious order founded in 1816 by Saint Eugene de Mazenod, a priest from Marseilles, with the intention of reviving the Roman Catholic Church after the French Revolution, and later known for its missionary work.
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