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Theatre and Entertainment, TICKETS and PASSES, Theatre and Entertainment, Travelling location, Newsome’s Circus, octagonal brass, royal arms and supporters dividing newsome’s circus, rev. pit & promenade, 30mm, 8.48g (W 967, this piece illustrated). About very fine, rare £70-90
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: W.J. Noble Collection, Part II, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 61B (Melbourne), 3-4 August 1999, lot 752 (part) [from S.E. Schwer 1984]; bt L. McCarthy November 2002.
James Newsome (1824-1912), an equestrian performer and circus proprietor from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was indentured to William Batty at Astley’s Amphitheatre in 1836. By the late 1840s he had his own company and toured extensively, besides having multi-year seasons in Norwich and Edinburgh
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