Our family have had for many years an attractive tankard.  It is enscribed as follows:
 
'6th C.R.V.
Prize Meeting 1862
Presented by Mr John Lowe
to the Best Shot on both days at 500 yards
Won by
Ensign J.D. Farrer'
 
We would very much like to know more about the tankard.  I'm not sure how it was acquired as we have no-one in our family of that name.
 
Could anyone suggest an appropriate 'home' for the tankard ?
 
Thank you very much

Ensign J. D. Farrer 6th Cheshire Rifle Volunteers on 21st August 1861 at Shotwick Range won �5.  Five shots each with an Enfield at 200, 500 & 600.  He scored 18 points.  
Scores  
200 - 2 2 2 2 1
500 - 1 2 1 1 1
600 - 0 0 1 1 1  
In another Competition he took part in a shoot off for a tie to win a Second Prize of �3  
He took a 3rd Prize in the Aggregates.
 
He used a Whitworth to shoot the All Comers - not so good -
200 - 1 2 2 2 2
500 - 1 0 1 0 1
600 - 0 0 0 0 0
 
The next day he shot the Whitworth at Long Range
650 - 0 0 1 0 1
700 - 0 0 0 1 0
800 - 0 1 0 2 0
 
Curiously enough he is listed for the same day as Sergeant J. D. Farrer, 6 CRV in the Members Prizes.
5 shots at 200 yards - 1 1 2 1 2
 
His performance seemed rather up and down just like the results of so many of the Enfield and Whitworth shooters of the present day.
 
He seems to have made some improvement by the following year.
 
The Cheshire Volunteers have a home in the Cheshire Regimental Museum in Chester.  I am sure that they wouold be happy to have this piece.
 
Bill Curtis
 

Two sources - 1861 Annual Report of National Rifle Association and Blanch's Volunteers' Book of Facts for 1862.
 
I live less than half an hour from Chester along the N Wales coast.
 
I have a large original framed photo of the Wimbledon Team from Cheshire in 1864 with the members all named but I am afraid Farrer is not in it. Shame, as it would have nice to have extracted his picture to go with your tankard.