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. 129), 38 x 32mm, 7.86g (D & W 78/235; MG 657). Very fine and very rare £200-250

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