The Carlo Caldesi Award for the Trophy of the Year (CCA) is an award instituted to honor the best big game trophy, in terms of difficulity of hunt, rarity and score, taken in one particular year by an active Member of Safari Club International (S.C.I.).  The CCA is named after Dr. Carlo Caldesi, the only Italian to have achieved so far the highest honors in international big game hunting: being the recipient in 1981 of the "Westherby Hunting and Conservation Award", in 1983 of the S.C.I. Hall of Fame Award and in 1987 of the S.C.I. International Hunting Award. The Award itself will be a silver and bronze sculpture made out of friendship by artist Corrado Gambotti and given as a present by the Caldesi family every year.

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