Parks and Gardens, London, Marylebone, Marylebone Gardens, 1766, uniface brass, marybone admit two and date within border of palm leaves, French horns above and book below, engraved (No. 172), 38 x 32mm, 10.15g (D & W 78/235; MG 657). Some surface marks and a spot by e of marybone, otherwise very fine and very rare £150-200

Provenance: T.K. Mackenzie Collection, Glendining Auction, 19-20 July 1934, lot 407 (part), recté 1766).

Marylebone Gardens occupied the site of what is now bounded by Beaumont and Devonshire streets, Upper Wimpole and Upper Harley streets. Opened in the late 17th century, they enjoyed a zenith of popularity in the 1730s and 1740s and subsequently were enlarged to some 8 acres in 1753, but by the mid-1760s decline set in and the gardens ceased to open regularly in 1776