HAND MADE WOODEN SIKH POLO PLAYER

Good Shot Old Boy my hand carved Sikh Polo Player from the time of the British Raj

Polo originated in China and Persia around 2,000 years ago. The first recorded game took place in 600BC between the Turkomans and Persians.

The Moguls were largely responsible for taking the game from Persia to the east and, by the 16th century, the Emperor Babur had established it in India. In the 1850s, British tea planters discovered the game in Manipur on the Burmese border with India and they founded the world’s first polo club at Silchar, west of Manipur. Other clubs followed and today the oldest in the world is the Calcutta Club which founded in 1862.

It was John Watson (1856-1908), of the 13th Hussars, who formulated the first real rules of the game in India in the 1870s. The first polo club in England was Monmouthshire, founded in 1872 by Captain Francis “Tip” Herbert (1845- 1922), of the 7th Lancers.

Handicaps were introduced by the USA in 1888 and by England and India in 1910 and the first official match in Argentina took place on 3rd September 1875. The game had been taken there by English and Irish engineers and ranchers.

UK Price: £29 + £7.5 post

Overseas Price: USA $70 inc of post

Availability: Order only for Xmas

Size: 17'' and 48''Tall

Code Number: 812

Provenance: Limited Edition New Design

Condition: Antique Finish

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