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Description: | Rowing colours handkerchieves were designed and offered for sale whenever there was a major race. The usual charge for a handkerchief was a guinea, ��1 1s. Their sale provided a useful secondary income for professional oarsmen. R.W. Boyd was a member of a Gateshead rowing family, although he later settled in Middlesbrough. He was briefly Champion sculler of England in 1877 and competed unsuccessfully for the championship of the world against Hanlan on the Tyne, April 3rd 1882. It is likely that this handkerchief was issued for his match with William Elliott on the Tyne, Februaty 9th 1880. Boyd won the race. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | living in the North East craft clothes made in the North East sport leisure men | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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