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"Champion Briggs" Wire-haired Fox Terrier Enamel miniature of "Champion Briggs". One of the earliest and most successful Wire-haired Fox Terrier champions, a winner 9 times of the famous '50-Guinea Challenge Cup'.
This miniature was commissioned by Lord Lonsdale who purchased Briggs.
Written on the reverse 'Champion Briggs' picked up in the streets of
Darlington with a long tail for 5/- afterwards purchased by Lord Lonsdale from Mr Field of Oxford for at that time the highest figure given for a wire-haired fox terrier.
Champion Briggs was one of the earliest and most successful Wire-haired Fox Terrier champions. The Fox Terrier Club famous '50-Guinea Challenge Cup' which started in 1881 records Briggs as the 1882 (Sheffield), 1882 (Oxford), 1883 (January, Crystal Palace), 1883 (Aston), 1883 (July, Crystal Palace), 1883 (November, Oxford), 1884 (January, Crystal Palace), 1884 (July, Crystal Palace), and 1884 (London).
Mr. F. Waddington's Briggs (which afterwards went to Lord Lonsdale), the hero of an assize trial, was perhaps, a terrier second only to Carlisle Tack, and Miss Miggs, Mr. F. H. Field's (and Lord Lonsdale's), was by some good judges supposed to be the best bitch of the variety ever produced.
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