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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
25-Jun-2008
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Description:
Donald Mackintosh: Photograph endorsed 'From Jack & Donald, To Leo with best wishes'. [Australia was represented at the 1900 Olympics by three athletes, all of whom won medals - Freddy Lane (swimming - 2 x gold), Donald Mackintosh (shooting - gold & bronze) and Stanley Rowley (athletics - gold & 3 bronze)]. Mackintosh, who started shooting rabbits with an ancient muzzle-loader not long after he first attended primary school, won the Grand Prix at Monte Carlo twice. Among his other major wins were the London Gun Club Challenge Cup (three times in a row), the Melbourne Gun Club Challenge Cup (three times in a row), the Grand Prize of Italy, the Grand Prize Aix les Bains, the Belgian championship, the Milan Grand Prize and the Madrid Grand Prize. He was considered the champion of the world.]
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Category:
Unclassified