End of the line for Challenge Cup creators

The family-run jewellers from Yorkshire who created Rugby League's Challenge Cup trophy, which was inaugurated in 1896/97, are to close their last remaining shop. Batley were the first club to lift the famous silverware designed by Fattorini's of Bradford, who also supplied the winners' medals. They beat St Helens 10-3 in the final at Heading

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