British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Parks and Gardens, Lancashire, Liverpool, Zoological Gardens (Est. 1833), Thomas Atkins, copper, elephant, visitors check, rev. legend, 32mm, 7.56g/12h (D & W 62/139; MG 866; Noble II, 771). Usual weakness in centre of reverse, otherwise good very fine with a hint of original colour £40-60

Provenance: D.C. Pottinger Collection [from R. Gladdle Dec 1982).

Liverpool Zoological Gardens, West Derby road, established by the travelling menagerist Thomas Atkins in 1833, closed in 1863