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Rare Antique Bronze Prize Medal - Gulmarg Golf Club, India
£75.00
A Bronze Prize Medal from Gulmarg Golf Club situated in Gulmarg in the Baramulla district, Jammu and Kashmir, India - circa 1920's-1930's
The medal depicts the Maharaja Partap Singh, the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir State (who reigned 1885-1925) to one side and the Club House scene on the other.
The Gulmarg Golf Course with a 6-hole course was built within a meadow by Colonel Neville Chamberlain in 1890 at Gulmarg, a hill station near Srinagar. By the 1920s the resort had two 18-hole courses, the ‘Upper Course’ and the ‘Lower’ and one 9-hole middle course, which was more famous as the ‘Rabbits Course.
The first Golf Championship was played at Gulmarg in 1922 - and the Gulmarg Golf Club Medals with the portrait of Maharaja Partap Singh, date from this time.
Size - approx. 39mm
Condition - Good