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Tickets and Passes, DERBYSHIRE, Chatsworth, William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire, a uniface engraved silver gaming counter, arms and supporters, 28mm, 5.67g; together with papier mache, pen and ink gaming counters featuring coats of arms of peers of the realm, c. 1830 (3), of Baron Hamilton of Wishaw, the 3rd Baron Braybrooke, and the 2nd Baron Colchester [4]. Very fine, all very rare £150-250

Provenance: C. Narbeth Collection [first from Arca Antiques October 2007].

William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire (1617-84), staunch royalist and friend of John Evelyn; Robert Montgomery Hamilton, Baron Hamilton of Wishaw (1793-1868); Richard Neville, 3rd Baron Braybrooke (1783-1858); Charles Abbot, 2nd Baron Colchester (1798-1867)