February 29, 2024
RARE 1898 St. Mark's 1st prize fencing award fine sterling silver medal harvard
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Up for auction is a rare St Marks Atlantic Association fencing medal dated 1865 an in inscribed 1898 ... The metal is larger than a quarter and about the size of a half dollar so it should weigh about a half ounce of Fine sterling silver. It is a first prize Medal won by JF Ingalls which I belive is fay ingalls from harvard as it was found with dozens of his other medals for golf from 1904.Fay Ingalls was a Harvard University golf legend and his family founded or owned a resort in VA and was a very wealthy historically significant family in VA. The Ingalls family was instrumental in bringing the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroads to Virginia and largely responsible for making The Homestead the iconic resort it is today. In the 1890s, Melvin Ingalls of Cincinnati was one of several railroad executives who invested in The Homestead and surrounding acreage that later became Virginia Hot Springs Company. In 1922, his grandson, Fay Ingalls, Jr., became president of the Virginia Hot Springs Company and manager of operations of The Homestead Resort. Thereafter, the guest list at the resort reads like a Who’s Who of illustrious Americans, including John D. Rockefeller, John Astor, Harvey Firestone, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Ford. Today KSL Capital Partners who purchased the property in 2006, continues the legacy of a sporting lifestyle and love
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