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27 August 2020

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British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

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Lot

№ 696

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27 August 2020

Hammer Price:
£65

Outside London and Travelling Circuses, LANCASHIRE, Liverpool, Manders’ Menagerie, brass by H. Pasley, manders’ grand star menagerie around feeding ticket, rev. wm monogram in olive wreath, 41mm, 17.54g (W 965; Young, Theatres & Circus, p.134, this piece; D & W 91/343). Die flaw on reverse, some scratches on obverse, otherwise very fine £60-£80

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.

Based in Liverpool, the menagerie owned by William James Manders (1821-71) since 1851 travelled in 15 caravans; the main attraction were the lions, for which an extra charge was made for feeding them in the form of one of these tickets. After Manders’ death his widow, Sarah, carried on the business but the assets were sold off in 1880