Name/Title
1907 MacDonough trophy won by Stone boatyard sloop, 1907Entry/Object ID
2024.89.1Description
Acc. No. 24.89.1 A-D
Subject Category: Businesses of Alameda
Date or Period: 1907
Object: trophy, tea set
Description: Trophy in the form of a silver coffee, consisting of wood serving tray with silver rim, and silver coffee pot with lid, sugar bowl and creamer. Sugar bowl and creamer have an engraved gothic letter 'S'; coffee pot has engraved text: MacDonough Trophy, P.I.Y.A. Twelfth Annual Regatta, Sept 9, 1907, 36 ft class won by Sloop Presto.
All four pieces are marked: Shreve & Co, San Francisco, Sterling. All pieces have beaded rims (excepting the coffeepot lid); the lid has a button grip, and the coffee pot has two ivory bands.
Size: sugar bowl: diameter opening 3 3/4', max. size at grips: 5", height: 2 1/2", at ears: 3 1/4"; creamer: max. hor. size: 4", height at ear: 3 1/4"; coffee pot: height at rim: 6 1/4", (with lid: 8 1/4"); tray: diameter: 10", height 1".
History of Object: trophy won by a wooden yacht built at the boatyard founded in San Francisco by William Isaac Stone; and passed on to Lester Stone, who moved the boatyard to Alameda around 1940. Donor is last descendant and a long-tine resident of Alameda.
Trophy was held back from the other donations of the collection as the donor thought to use it, but she never did. Now reunited with the rest of the collection.
Donor: Roberta S. O'Grady
Donation Date: October 12, 2024
Catalog Date: November 24, 2024
