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№ 394

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15 September 2015

Hammer Price:
£260

Tickets and Checks (Post-1830), Castletown, George Hotel, brass, legend, vaults, rev. concentric circle, edge grained, 25mm, 4.18g (Quarmby 102; Mackay 151d; cf. Guard 513). About very fine, extremely rare £150-200

Provenance: R. Cain Collection, Spink Auction 145, 12-14 July 2000, lot 2805 (part).

In its current guise, the George Hotel, Market place, opposite Castle Rushen, opened in 1833 and remains in business