Coins, Paper Money, Tokens and Historical Medals

SURREY, Sunbury-on-Thames, Kempton Park Club, 1889, a gilt and enamel 10 Guinea Pass by H. Lewis, back stamped 926, 30mm, 9.88g (cf. Noble II, 1085); Kempton Park Club, 1889, a gilt and enamel Lady’s Pass by H. Lewis, back stamped 926, 26mm, 6.62g; Kempton Park Club, 1890, an openwork brass 10 Guinea Pass by H. Lewis, back stamped 1037, 38 x 32mm, 11.23g; Kempton Park Club, 1892, a brass 10 Guinea Pass by H. Lewis, back stamped with uncertain number, 39 x 30mm, 10.91g; Kempton Park, 1903, enamelled brass badges by Lewis (2), both stamped 1164, each 23mm, 5.22g, 4.92g; Kempton Park Club, 1910, an enamelled brass badge by H. Lewis, back stamped 1078, 38 x 15mm, 6.29g; Kempton Park Club, 1934, enamelled brass badges by W.O. Lewis (2), backs stamped 695, 803; Kempton Park Club, 1937, an enamelled brass badge by Marples & Beasley, back stamped 200; Kempton Park Club, 1948, an enamelled brass badge by Marples & Beasley, back stamped 649; Kempton Park Club, 1949, an enamelled brass badge by Marples & Beasley, back stamped 724 [12]. The 1890 very fine and scarce, 1892 excavated, others extremely fine £90-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Racing Tickets and Passes, the Property of a North Country Collector.

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Kempton Park racecourse was the idea of the businessman Samuel Henry Hyde, who leased the grounds as a tenant in 1872 and opened the racecourse in July 1878