This is one of the most unusual trophies we’ve come across. It is a quadruple silver plate ashtray inscribed as 1st Prize in an 1897 bicycle race.

For starters, the ashtray itself is by James Tufts and is very well crafted with the embossed pipe and smoke. Then the engraving is also nicely done on the pipe bowl and stem.

Size: 3 3/4" high x 9 1/2" wide

Inscription on bowl reads:
Fred Days 1ST Prize
Slow Bicycle Race
July 4TH ’97

Inscription on stem reads:
345 Beverly Frarvins (last name hard to read)

Marked on bottom:
James W. Tufts, Boston
Warranted Quadruple Plate
3270