Auction Catalogue

7 October 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 584

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7 October 2009

Hammer Price:
£140

Parks and Gardens, London, Lambeth, Vauxhall Gardens, uniface lead trial for a badge, unsigned [by R. Yeo after W. Hogarth], Mercury standing, wearing petasus, bull at left and sleeping man at right, scrolled border, 46mm, 20.38g (cf. D & W 86/295; MG –; cf. DNW T6, 643). A later striking from the die in rusted state, very fine and extremely rare £100-150

Provenance: F.W. Yeates Collection; F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Baldwin May 1923]