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Lot

№ 1116

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6 June 2019

Hammer Price:
£110

Circuses, Louis Soullier, brass, by H. Smith, horsewoman cantering left, hippodrome et cirque soullier around, rev. troisième, star and crescent crest above and below, 33mm, 8.96g (cf. W 977; cf. DNW 147, 1686). Very fine, scarce £80-£100

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: Bt November 2007.

Louis Soullier (1813-88), proprietor of his self-styled Cirque Orientale, toured England in 1852, performing in London and Manchester, before taking his troupe to China, where they debuted in 1854 as that country’s first-ever circus