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    Is the Rugby World Cup made from solid gold?

    Question #42987. Asked by Linus_337. (Jan 03 04 4:44 PM)


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    		The Webb Ellis Cup was crafted on Garrard's workshop in 1906, a Victorian version of a cup fashioned in 1740 by the gold and silversmith Paul de Lamerie (1688-1751), whose parents, Huguenots, had fled to London and set up a shop in Soho.

    The Cup is silver gilded in gold, 38 centimetres tall with two cast scroll handles. On one there perches the head of a satyr, on the other the head of a nymph, the nymph, beautiful spirit of nature, forever safe from the randy aspirations of the goat-man. The terminals are a bearded mask, a lion mask and a vine.
    http://www.wesclark.com/rrr/webb_ellis_cup.html

    Jan 03 04, 6:25 PM

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