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Lot 565
An Arts & Crafts Sterling Silver Golf Trophy by William Waldo Dodge Jr.
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Crafted for the Biltmore Forest Country Club in Asheville and engraved "B. F. C. C. / Women's Invitation Golf Tournament / 2nd Flight - Winner / 1939," marked "Dodge" and "Sterling" with the eagle and shield marks.

3.25 x 6.5 in. diameter

12.65 total troy oz.

Dodge first came to Asheville in 1919 to recover from injuries sustained in World War I. His occupational therapist and future wife, Margaret Wheeler Robinson, taught him the rudiments of silversmithing while he was recovering. After a brief northern sojourn, the Dodges returned to Asheville and opened Asheville Silvercraft in 1923. His workshop's mission statement announced that it would create work “of no transient style, but based upon the fundamentals of beauty, good proportion, beauty of materials and honest craftsmanship."

Light scratches; slightly out-of-round; area of surface roughness to interior.

$500 - 700