A 1897 Broadway Lawn Tennis Club Men’s Doubles 1st. Prize Trophy

A 1897 Broadway Lawn Tennis Club Men’s Doubles 1st. Prize Trophy, in the form of a Doulton three-handled tyg, with an applied white metal plaque, inscribed Broadway Lawn Tennis Club 1897, 1st Prize, Gentlemen's Doubles, Presented by A.F. De Navarro Esqr, the base with impressed factory marks, 17cm high, Included in this lot is an autographed postcard of Mary Anderson Navarro and two others showing their house and gardens, with tennis court, in Broadway, also contains biographical information and a photo of them as a married couple. Dimensions - 

 Antonio Fernando de Navarro (1860-1932) was born in New York and married Mary Antonia Anderson, an American Shakespearean and silent film actress. He was a sportsman, a Papal Chamberlain and was the eldest surviving member of a centuries old Basque family. He is also believed to have been Broadway Tennis Club’s President or Chairman. Mary Anderson was born in Sacramento, California and made her stage début in 1875 as 'Juliet' in Louisville, Kentucky. She debuted in New York City in 1877 and in London in 1883 to great popular success. Following a tour of Britain with W.S. Gilbert's Pygmalion and Galatea and Comedy and Tragedy, Anderson performed again in London in her own version of The Winter's Tale (1887). In 1890 she married Antonio Fernando de Navarro, a fellow American practising as a barrister in England and settled at "Court Farm" in Broadway, Worcestershire