FIVE ASSORTED ENGLISH SILVER TROPHY CUPS, VARIOUS MAKERS, LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM, 1928-1938 all circular with two handles, all inscribed, three on wood plinths with applied and inscribed plaques 12.5-23cm high, 1388gr (44oz) of weighable silver The inscriptions comprise references to the 'Film Weekly' Cup Film Actresses Championship (1930), the Reading Racing Pigeon Club (1930), the Reading Premier F.C. (1935), the 'Glebelands' Snooker Tournament (1949) and the 'Glebelands' Xmas Snooker Handicap (1937 to 1972), two presented by Sir William Jury. William Frederick Jury (1870-1944) began his career as assistant to his father-in-law, William Charles Marsh, an '(art) illuminator' and pyrotechnist, specialising in firework displays, general illuminations with electric lights, limelights and combinations of glass and variegate lamps. Marsh died in 1897 leaving Jury to continue the business. Two years later he added films to his repertoire of lightshows, giving early cinematograph exhibitions at fetes and other venues. By 1912 Jury's interests in the cinema were so important that he had become one of the earliest and most successful of film distributors in the United Kingdom. He was appointed the unpaid Chairman of the War Office Cinema Committee in 1916 and for this and other philanthropic services to the industry, he was given a knighthood in 1918. In October 1935, Sir William purchased Glebelands, a mansion near Wokingham in Surrey and presented it to the Cinematograph Trade Benevolent Fund, of which he had long been chairman, for use as a convalescent and rest home for some sixty members and former members of the industry. Provenance: The Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund (see lots 292, 293, 344, 392-395 for further items with the same provenance.)