At Christie's the Drako Cun was sold for .C3KOO to Mr. S. J. Phillips. The cup, in Ihe form of a terrestrial elobe engraved wilh a map of the world as known in (he sixteenth century, originally belonged to Sir J*rancis Drake, and the storv is I hat i 1 was given iiim bv Queen Elizabeth. It had been bricked up in the collar of 4 Cornish cninti-y houee for a ccntunr-
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 32, 1 November 1919, Page 7
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72Untitled Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 32, 1 November 1919, Page 7
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