So at my moms house tonight I had ants in my pants and decided to clean like a mad woman..this led to polishing 100 year old silver trophy's that belonged to my fathers family. I grew up with these in the house but never paid much attention, until tonight. Turns out one of them is from Detroit [[my fathers family was from Toledo area) and I have had a bit of fun with looking up the details tonight. But some questions remain

the Trophy has 2 sides.
Side A has the following inscribed
Burns Hotel
International Inanimate
Target Trophy
[[image of man shooting)
Jack Parker
Won By
John S.Schmidutz [[my fathers relative)
25 Straigaht
April 27th 1911
Side B
Donated By
J.D.Burns
and
A. Jas, Singelyn
Detroit MICH
1911
On the bottom its stamped Traub bros. 110 Woodward Ave Detroit

Now looking up Traub Bros. I came across this wonderful image
http://www.encore-editions.com/detro...aub-bros-store
its my understanding that the Traub bros jewelry store became, Grand Trunks ticket office and is now Foran's...unless I am wrong about the address? Was the Foran's location [[612 Woodward) once 110 Woodward? or did the Traub bros store also have a seperate location?

I came across this info for the Burns hotel which explains the 2 names on the Trophy [[sorry dont know how to make these links smaller)
http://books.google.com/books?id=2i3...etroit&f=false


Does anyone know how i can find more information about an International inanimate Target competition in 1911? I am coming up with a big fat zero on google..

Wondering how Jack Parker fits into all this as well...was the trophy in honor of him? was he a Detroit figure?

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