This is not a modern reproduction, but the actual 1934 printing offered by Yachting Magazine in anticipation of the 15th America’s Cup. Not only is it a fine work of art in its own right, but as the Cup is now entangled in legal wrangling it is a reminder of the J Class era, when Cup yachts weren’t floating billboards, the Defense was not run to a business model,  and gentlemen made and kept gentlemen's agreements -- even after a rules dispute such as occurred in the actual 1934 race.

The chart was drawn and illustrated by Ernest Clegg, an American artist who was justly renowned for his illustrated maps, and engraved and printed by the Beck Engraving Company, a premier outfit who, among other things, did the covers for the Saturday Evening Post. It was a first-class offering all around, but a flop;  the magazine competed with itself by including a page-sized color reproduction in one of its issues and only a handful sold. It is these smaller versions that come up every once in a while. They can be identified by their small size, lower-resolution reproduction, and the Packard ad on the back which often bleeds through in framed versions. In contrast this version is of the highest-quality printing on heavy coated paper, single-sided of course, and is an impressive 20 x 16.5 inches in size.

The chart depicts the course off Newport, RI, and  contains a history of the America’s Cup in Clegg’s magnificent calligraphy. It is illustrated with significant Defenders and Challengers up to that time: Puritan,  Columbia, Reliant, Thistle, Valkyrie, and Shamrock, as well as the J Class Challenger Endeavour and the contenders for the defense.

The chart was half-rolled gently in 1934 and has taken a set. This can be dealt with by any competent framing shop, as the picture of the one hanging in my study (and an identical one hanging in the Museum of Yachting) shows; these are all from the same batch as the one being offered.

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