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5 & 6 June 2019

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Lot

№ 1122

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6 June 2019

Hammer Price:
£75

Exhibitions and Museums, CAMDEN, The Edinburgh Castle Museum, Thomas Middlebrook, Edinburgh Castle (2), revs. free museum well worth a visit, etc, both 28mm, copper, 7.58g, brass, 8.55g (W 3051; D & W 69/178); copper, bust left, rev. free museum well worth a visit, etc, 28mm, 9.71g (W 3052); 1897, bust of Victoria left, rev. edinburgh castle free museum, etc, 32mm (W 3053); copper, flag, with the season’s greetings, etc, rev. Balaclava bugle above motto of 17th Lancers, 32mm (W 3050; D & W 68/177) [5]. Brass about very fine, others about extremely fine and better £50-£70

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: First bt Format September 2003; second bt J.N. Holman May 2003; third bt L. McCarthy November 2002; fourth bt H. Simmons October 2005; last bt A. Judd January 2003.

Thomas George Middlebrook, innholder, Old King’s Arms, Southwark, 1874-9, and the Edinburgh Castle, 1879-1906; at the latter he housed a collection of military relics from about 1887, which was sold by Debenham Storr in January 1908. The correct order of issue has been demonstrated by David Powell (
eSylum vol. 17, no. 52, 21 December 2014)