Auction Catalogue

19 March 2009

Starting at 10:30 AM

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British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 644

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19 March 2009

Hammer Price:
£170

Parks and Gardens, London, Lambeth, Vauxhall Gardens, uniface copper, unsigned [by R. Yeo after W. Hogarth], Britannia standing left, holding spear, offering hand to semi-kneeling muse, shield at right, tamen inter arma below, back dated (1747), 40 x 34mm, 14.78g (D & W –; MG –; cf. Baldwin Auction 12, 1011 and Noble II, 812). A later striking from the die in lightly rusted state, good very fine and extremely rare; with integral loop for suspension £200-300

Provenance: From the stock-in-trade of W.S. Lincoln, Glendining Auction, 6-7 March 1930, lot 44 (part)