Editing America's Cup (section)

== The America's Cup trophy ==
The Cup, also known as the Auld Mug, is an ornate [[sterling silver]] bottomless [[Pitcher (container)|ewer]] crafted in 1848 by [[Garrard & Co]].<ref>{{cite web |date=5 December 2005 |title=A Cup is a Cup, by any other name |url=http://32nd.americascup.com/en/americascup/news_official/detail.php?idContent=5549 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303041139/http://32nd.americascup.com/en/americascup/news_official/detail.php?idContent=5549 |archive-date=3 March 2012 |access-date=5 May 2012 |publisher=americascup.com}}</ref> [[Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey]], bought one and donated it for the [[Royal Yacht Squadron]]'s 1851 Annual Regatta around the [[Isle of Wight]].

The cup was originally known as the 'R.Y.S. £100 Cup', [[1851 America's Cup|awarded in 1851]] by the British [[Royal Yacht Squadron]] for a race around the [[Isle of Wight]] in the [[United Kingdom]]. The winning yacht was a [[schooner]] called ''[[America (yacht)|America]]'', owned by a syndicate of members from the [[New York Yacht Club]] (NYYC). In 1857, the syndicate permanently donated the trophy to the NYYC, under a [[Deed of Gift of the America's Cup|Deed of Gift]] that renamed the trophy as the 'America's Cup' after the first winner and required it be made available for perpetual international competition.

It was originally known as the "R.Y.S. £100 Cup", standing for a cup of a hundred GB Pounds or "sovereigns" in value. The cup was subsequently mistakenly engraved<ref name="Lawson3752">{{Cite book |author=Thomas W. Lawson |title=The Lawson History of the America's Cup |publisher=Winfield M. Thompson Press |orig-year=1902 |year=1986 |isbn=978-0-907069-40-9 |pages=374–375 |chapter=List of Inscriptions on the America's Cup |author-link=Thomas W. Lawson (businessman) |access-date=5 May 2012 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/lawsonhistoryofa00thomrich#page/374}}</ref> as the "100 Guinea Cup" by the ''America'' syndicate, but was also referred to as the "Queen's Cup" (a [[Guinea (British coin)|guinea]] is an old monetary unit of one pound and one shilling, now £1.05). Today, the trophy is officially known as the "America's Cup" after the 1851 winning yacht, and is affectionately called the "Auld Mug" by the sailing community. It is inscribed with names of the yachts that competed for it,<ref name="Lawson3752" /><!--I don't know what this note about Lawson's History of the Cup is doing here.
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| The book was published as a private limited edition of 3000 copies solely for distribution to yachtsmen and libraries in US and Europe. Lawson, who was a Bostonian, wrote in the Introduction<ref name="Lawsonxiii">{{Cite book |title=The Lawson History of the America's Cup |url=https://archive.org/stream/lawsonhistoryofa00thomrich#page/n21/mode/2up |last=Lawson |first=Thomas W |last2=Thompson |first2=Winfield M |year=1902 |chapter=Introduction |page=xiii |publisher=Winfield M. Thompson Press |isbn=978-0-907069-40-9 |author-link=Thomas W. Lawson (businessman) |access-date=5 May 2012}}</ref> that he was stimulated to write the book, because he refused to recognize the right of the [[New York Yacht Club]] (NYYC) to compel him to be a member of the NYYC in order "to compete for the honour of defending an American international trophy". The book provides a very detailed description of America's Cup related activity starting with the rationale to build the schooner ''America'' and the events of the following 50 years.
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