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[Boston], copper and pewter trophy cup, c.1911, with grape vine decorations in pewter at rim and base, curved pewter handles, height: 375 mm. Engraved "Metro Club of New England / Everett C. Benton Trophy / Maintaining Longest Equilibrium" with names of winners by year engraved below that, including Charles J. Glidden (1911), J.B. Benton (1912-1913), J.J. Van Valkenburgh (1914) and J. Walter Flagg (1915). Joint between base and top section slightly loose, traces of old polish, interior tarnished. Everett C. Benton was a prominent Massachusetts politician who ran for Governor in 1912. The first winner of the cup, Charles J. Glidden, was a telephone pioneer who enthusiastically promoted the automobile, and later the aircraft, and established the Glidden Tour, a reliability competition for automobiles.