Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

LONDON, Haymarket, Her Majesty’s Theatre, 1847, ivory, legend, rev. named (Lady Laura Meyrick, Stage Box 7, 4), 39mm, 6.44g (cf. W 337). Good very fine, rare; pierced for wearing £200-300

Provenance: Toovey’s Auction (Washington, UK), 21 May 2014, lot 803.

Lady Laura Meyrick, née Vane (1800-82), b Staindrop, co Durham, daughter of William Henry Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland, married Col. William Henry Meyrick (†1865) in February 1823. They lived in Hanover square, London, and at Auberies, near Sudbury, Suffolk.

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