Art Deco Silver Golf Trophy

This small but heavy solid silver golf trophy (95g) was awarded on 1st July 1933 to H. C. Alexander at Woodbridge Golf Club on the occasion of the Morning Post paper's semi-final. The Morning Post was a conservative daily newspaper published in London from 1772 to 1937, when it was acquired by The Daily Telegraph. The paper was founded by John Bell, and according to historian Robert Darnton, The Morning Post scandal sheet consisted of paragraph-long news snippets, much of it false. The paper was never far from controversy and once again gained notoriety in 1920, after it ran a series of 17 or 18 articles based on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The articles were subsequently collected and formed the basis of the book The Cause of World Unrest, to which half the paper's staff contributed. However, credit for the compilation was ascribed principally to the paper's editor, H.A. Gwynne. The book further denounced international Jewry, and cultural and social dissolution in the Christian nations. Paper owners 'The Bathursts' sold the paper to a consortium headed by the Duke of Northumberland in 1924. After Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, it was one of the few newspapers in Europe to immediately recognize that Nazi Germany would try to "seek a solution to difficulties at home with adventures abroad." Four years after this trophy was awarded, in 1937, the Morning Post was sold to the Daily Telegraph, which was then owned by William Berry. The Post did not remain a separate title, and subsequently was absorbed into the Telegraph.