Education, REGENT STREET, Polytechnic Institution, 1840, white metal, by A.J. Stothard, conjoined busts of Victoria and Albert left, rev. helmeted head of Britannia left, 28mm, 10.57g (W & E 215A.1; W –; D & W 80/248). Good very fine; usual alteration of 4 in date £10-£20

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection.

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Provenance: Bt February 2013.

The Polytechnic in Regent street, now the main campus of the University of Westminster, was built in 1837 and opened on 6 August 1838. Prince Albert visited in 1840 and became a patron the following year