1890 Yorkshire RFU Challenge Cup winner’s gold medal awarded to Huddersfield’s JW Dyson, from the match played at Thrum Hall, 5th April, shield-shaped 18ct gold medal, obverse with crest and YORKSHIRE RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION, reverse engraved CHALLENGE CUP COMPETITION 1890 WON BY HUDDERSFIELD J DYSON, hallmarked 18ct with maker's stamp P & S, 30 by 25mm., 14gr., in a Fattorini & Sons case, sold together with two b & w photographs, one of the Huddersfield team, the other of J. Dyson, with a handwritten note detailing his playing career, wear to both case and medal, decoration and engraving rubbed on both sides of medal (4) Huddersfield beat Wakefield Trinity by one goal and one minor point.J W Dyson was a multi-interntaional England player.
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1890 Yorkshire RFU Challenge Cup winner’s gold medal awarded to Huddersfield’s JW Dyson, from the match played at Thrum Hall, 5th April, shield-shaped 18ct gold medal, obverse with crest and YORKSHIRE RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION, reverse engraved CHALLENGE CUP COMPETITION 1890 WON BY HUDDERSFIELD J DYSON, hallmarked 18ct with maker's stamp P & S, 30 by 25mm., 14gr., in a Fattorini & Sons case, sold together with two b & w photographs, one of the Huddersfield team, the other of J. Dyson, with a handwritten note detailing his playing career, wear to both case and medal, decoration and engraving rubbed on both sides of medal (4) Huddersfield beat Wakefield Trinity by one goal and one minor point.J W Dyson was a multi-interntaional England player.