Royal Caledonian Silver Curling Medal 1908

A Birmingham hallmarked silver (27 grams, 40mm) district curling medal from the Royal Caledonian Curling Club, made by R & W Sorley, St Vincent Street & Renfield Street, Glasgow. The curling medallion hallmarked Birmingham 1908, stamped R & W.

The reverse embossed'Royal Caledonian Curling Club, Instituted 25 July 1838, District Medal, front depicts a curling match in play with the Scotland Coat of arms surrounded by thistles. The coat of arms with national motto of the Kingdom of Scotland'Nemo Ne Impune Lacessit' -'No One Provokes Me With Impunity'. The Royal Caledonian Curling Club (RCCC) is the mother club of the sport of curling, and the governing body of curling in Scotland. The RCCC was founded on July 25, 1838 in Edinburgh, and granted its royal charter by Queen Victoria in 1843, after she had witnessed a demonstration of the sport played on the polished ballroom floor of Scone Palace the previous year.

The body is based at the Royal Highland Showground, Ingliston, Edinburgh. The objective of the RCCC is "To unite curlers throughout the world into one Brotherhood of the Rink", and today the Royal Club has branches and affiliated associations and clubs in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the United States and Wales. Medal was passed onto me by my grandfather over 35 years ago.

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