£200 - £300
POLO LEDGER: The Stansted Polo Club Book. Stansted, Bishop's Stortford, August 3rd 1892 - May 20th 1900: 120pp record of Polo Club events, including 2 telegrams, newspaper cuttings, a comprehensive record of the club's successes (county cup winners 1896 & 99), the riders and ponies, match reports, 'Minutes Relative to the Formation of the Club 9, New Bridge Street, London EC, August 3 1892', proposed members, including Herbert Blyth, Chairman, Tresham Gilbey Treasurer/Secretary, later becoming President of The Polo Pony Society in 1899 & 1906. 'They are all keen as mustard...the two most important things, to gallop and ride off...so I predict a brilliant future for the Stansted Club'. Now known as Silver Leys Polo Club, it is the oldest polo club in England. Original dark half morocco, gilt lettered to upper board, 4to. (1)
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