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14–16 June 2017

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Lot

№ 1140

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15 June 2017

Hammer Price:
£160

Gardens, TICKETS and PASSES, Gardens, LAMBETH, Vauxhall Gardens, Britannia, 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 (cf. W 1373 and p.188; D & W –; cf. Baldwin Auction 12, 1011 and Noble II, 812). A later striking from the die in lightly rusted state, perhaps by Matthew Young, good very fine and extremely rare; with integral loop for suspension £200-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection.

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Provenance: From the stock-in-trade of W.S. Lincoln, Glendining Auction, 6-7 March 1930, lot 44 (part); F.S. Cokayne Collection; DNW Auction T6, 19 March 2009, lot 644