A GEORGE V GOLD CANNES GOLF CLUB MEDAL, HENRY JENKINS & SONS, BIRMINGHAM, 1913 obverse with shield intialled CGC below the Russian Imperial eagle and flanked by golf clubs, the reverse stamped 'THE CANNES GOLF CLUB' and engraved 'LADIES GOLD MEDAL 1914 WON BY J.B. MARTIN', 18 carat 3.2cm diameter, 17.5gr The Cannes Golf Club (now Golf de Cannes-Mandelieu Old Course) is the oldest course on the Riviera, founded by Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia in 1891. It was in the same year that Prince Michael married Countess Sophie of Merenberg, a morganatic marriage that caused his exile from Russia and so shocked his mother that she suffered a fatal heart attack.