British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Parks and Gardens, Bath, Spring Gardens, brass Sixpence, legend both sides, 31mm, 7.17g/5h (TCPS 79; D & W 45/15; MG 699; Courtney p.158). Very fine and very rare (£90-120)

Provenance:
B. Greenaway Collection.

The Spring Gardens, situated on the side of the river Avon, had opened by 1769. Admission was by a sixpenny ticket that entitled the bearer to anything at the bar to that value. The gardens closed in September 1796 (TCPS p.15)