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Tickets and Passes, LONDON, West India Dock Co, a brass ticket by F. Jukes, ship with sails furled, rev. labourer at warehouse, stamped 10, 41mm (Hawkins p.33; D & W 334/42; cf. Noble II, 1123; cf. DNW M11, 1691). Pierced as issued, fine, rare £100-150

Provenance: F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Baldwin May 1922].

The West India Dock Company was formed by Robert Milligan (1746–1809), Jamaican born merchant and ship-owner and the Docks, authorised by the West India Dock Act of 1799, were constructed between 1800 and 1802, with the South Dock built in the 1860s