Trophies Show Success
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by: Jeff Anderson9
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Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 Time: 1:16 PM
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Trophies are evidence of skill and have deep meaning for the recipient. People display trophies proudly in their homes, offices and schools.
Trophies can range from very inexpensive to practically priceless. They are often unique, like the Stanley Cup, for instance, which is awarded each year to the National Hockey League's winner. They can also be mass produced of molded plastic that cost less than one dollar. These trophies are always considered a treasure.
In the past, trophies were made of metal with a wooden base but are now made of plastic colored to look like metals like gold, brass or silvery color. Parts of trophies are manufactured in an assembly line in a factory but are put together by a specialty shop. These shops sell retail price to public parties.
Because of this there is a huge array of the kinds of parts contained in trophies. There are trophies for everyone's needs and they come in hundreds of designs. There could be a saleswoman on top for example, a marksmen or a barber to mention a few.
In ancient days trophies stood for victories. The name “trophy,” derived from Greek tropaion, comes from trope, “to rout.” Ancient Greece had trophies which stood for war winnings and were made on the fighting field at a place the enemy had died. The trophies were usually of captured standards and hung on a tree or other prominent place and looked like a warrior.
The trophies were written on and the details of the fight were sent to the gods. Trophies of the navy were of ships, or what was left of them, sitting out on the beach to show the conquest of the enemy.
To deliberately destroy a trophy was a sacrilege because it is given as appreciation and thanks to a god.
Ancient Romans liked to keep trophies close to home rather than near the place of the winnings. They had special trophies made in Rome; these trophies included columns and sometimes arches on top of a foundation.
There are still to this day big stone memorials that were made as foundations for trophies that are long gone.
Not much is known about trophies passed on in the middle ages. Vessels were made for winners of events around the late 1600's and the New World. Chalices in particular are connected to sporting events and were made of silver by silversmiths for horse racing. Later they were used for boating and early car racing.
Trophies frequently are in the shape of a cup, like the Davis Cup, which is a tennis trophy awarded for the first time in 1900.
Trophies cost less and are given more often because manufacturers make them out of plastic, which is much less expensive than the old-time metals that were once used.
Even today, trophies are as popular as they were in ancient times.
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