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Commerce, ST MARTIN’S LANE, Amicable Society, 1696, silver, crown above clasped hands, date below, rev. frontal elevation of building, amicable contribution ship around, un-named, 40mm, 25.34g (W 2324; D & W 102/7; MI II, 155/422; cf. DNW 37, 933). About extremely fine and toned, very rare £400-£500
Hammer Price: £550
Theatre and Entertainment, COVENT GARDEN, Royal Italian Opera House, 1875, oval ivory, royal italian opera covent garden, named (A.B. White Esq.), rev. 1875 tuesday & saturday, stall 61, ink signature (E. Hall), 50 x 36mm, 6.78g (W 164, this piece illustrated; MG 272). Good very fine, very rare; with small piercing for suspension £240-£300
Hammer Price: £340
Clubs and Societies, REGENT’S PARK, Royal Botanic Society of London, Fellow, stained red ivory, crowned legend within wreath, rev. named (Hy. Vaughan, 2551), 36mm, 5.13g (W 2662, this piece illustrated; cf. D & W 151/389-90). Very fine, rare £120-£150
Hammer Price: £320
Commerce, CORNHILL, Sun Fire Office, 1737, cast copper, radiant sun, rev. date, 30mm, 16.07g (W 2326, this piece illustrated). Very fine and very rare £90-£120
Clubs and Societies, Society of Bucks, silver, by J. Westwood, deer standing left, tail pointing outwards, rev. plough, industry produceth wealth, handle below in, 37mm, 17.80g/12h (DH Middlesex 231; W 1779; D & W 152/391). Scratched in obverse field, otherwise fine and toned, very rare £150-£200
Hammer Price: £300
Exhibitions and Museums, Piccadilly, Royal Academy, British School, uniface oval pallet-shaped gilt-copper, c. 1800, Prince of Wales’ feathers, back engraved 126, 53 x 43mm, 21.82g (D & W 146/349). Very fine and very rare £100-£150
Commerce, CUSTOM HOUSE, John Bradshaw, a George II imitation Halfpenny, rev. planed flat and engraved (John Bradshaw Ticket Porter Custom House 1765), crown below, 27mm, 8.08g. Fine; pierced for suspension £30-£40
Theatre and Entertainment, MARYLEBONE, Harley Street, Quartett Society, stained pink ivory, honour to beethoven quartett society around 55, rev. transferable, 37mm, 4.30g (W 1101, and p.149, this piece illustrated; Young, Entertainments, p.24, this piece illustrated; D & W –). Cracked in centre, otherwise fine, very rare £70-£90
Hammer Price: £260
Events, George IV, Coronation, 1821, official admission, silver, crown, coronation of h m king george the iv around, rev. wreath, un-named, 38mm, 28.47g (D & W 54/81; cf. DNW 137, 370). Obverse rim knock at 2 o’clock, otherwise about extremely fine and toned, rare £300-£400
Hammer Price: £240
Gardens, LAMBETH, Vauxhall Gardens, Mercury, copper, unsigned [by R. Yeo after W. Hogarth], Mercury standing, wearing petasus, bull at left and sleeping man at right, scrolled border, back dated (1745), 41 x 40mm, 19.55g (cf. W 1354; cf. D & W 86/295). A later striking from the die in rusted state, very fine and extremely rare; with integral loop for suspension £100-£150
Exhibitions and Museums, LEICESTER SQUARE, Holophusicon, Sir Ashton Lever, copper, sr a l, star onaments above and below, rev. holophusicon, star ornaments above and below, 37mm, 15.05g (W 1024; D & W 76/221; Young, Entertainments, pp.32-3). Good very fine, rare £150-£200
Hammer Price: £220
Theatre and Entertainment, DRURY LANE, Her Majesty’s Opera, 1868, ivory, her majesty’s opera drury lane above date, rev. 178, 35mm, 5.16g (W 234, this piece listed; D & W 22/249-51). Centre crack, otherwise very fine and extremely rare; pierced for suspension £150-£200
Hammer Price: £200
Circuses, LAMBETH, Astley’s Amphitheatre, copper, astleys, rev. exhibition, 37mm, 12.69g (W 79); together with Victoria, Penny, 1892, obv. countermarked astley; Carter’s Steam Fair, brass, 2014, 25mm, 5.53g; Harry Levy Amusement Contractors Ltd, Circus, cupro-nickel, 31mm, 8.80g [4]. Second fine, others very fine and better, first very rare £40-£50
Hammer Price: £170
Gardens, Music, uniface copper, man standing playing lute, dog at his feet, another figure with a ball at left, head of a giraffe above, tree in background with squirrel on branch, back named (Ia. Clark), 29mm, 13.88g (W –; D & W –). Very fine and well-executed, an intriguing piece and doubtless very rare, worthy of further research £90-£120
Clubs and Societies, ST JAMES’S, Catch Club, Instituted 1762, silver, by T. Pingo, Apollo and Dionysos seated facing each other, tripod supporting oak wreath in centre, let’s drink and let’s sing together, rev. wreath, engraved (A Proof), 44mm, 31.01g (Eimer 28; W 1102, this piece illustrated; D & W 152/398). About extremely fine and toned, rare £200-£300
Hammer Price: £160
Gardens, BERMONDSEY, Thomas Keys, Halfpenny, 1785, TT between two keys, spa garden bermondsey, rev. two clarinets and French horn around flaming heart, edge plain, 6.93g/12h (DH Surrey 3; W 1300 [not seen]). Mediocre, a great rarity; no others noted in commerce in recent years £200-£300
Theatre and Entertainment, MAYFAIR, The Playlovers Academy & Stage Institute, 1925, silver, legends highlighted in blue, by J.A. Restall, the first exhibition of the history of concerts by the contemporary records of two centuries, named (H. Stead), rev. lionel powell & harold holt around to inaugurate the opening of their new premises for concert tickets at 161 new bond st. london w.1 1925, hallmarked Birmingham 1924, 57mm, 62.27g. Very fine and extremely rare £100-£150
Hammer Price: £140
Gardens, Lambeth, Vauxhall Gardens, Erato, uniface lead trial for a badge, unsigned [by R. Yeo after W. Hogarth], Erato seated right with lyre, greeting robed female, vereor ne ultimum below, scrolled border, 41mm, 27.17g (cf. W 1349; cf. D & W 85/289). A later striking from the die in rusted state, chipped at bottom, otherwise very fine and extremely rare £80-£100
Hammer Price: £130
Gardens, WESTMINSTER, Grosvenor Gardens, Subscribers’ Ticket, white metal, unsigned, arms and supporters of the Duke of Westminster, rev. subscribers ticket grosvenor gardens, un-named, 36mm, 15.70g (W 1316; D & W 72/197). Minor surface marks, otherwise good very fine, very rare £150-£200
Hammer Price: £120
Clubs and Societies, REGENT STREET, London Opinion Curio Club, stained ivory Membership, kneeling figure to right, bag of swag over his shoulder, No.167 below, rev. shamrock above open book, the instinct to admire the passion to acquire, 46mm, 3.88g (W –; D & W –). Fine, rare £30-£40
Hammer Price: £110
Theatre and Entertainment, COVENT GARDEN, Theatre Royal, First Theatre, 1793, uniface copper, two shilling gallery above date, linear and beaded circles, 34mm, 11.69g (W 118; D & W 41/435). A trifle weak in centre, otherwise very fine and very rare £60-£80
Hammer Price: £100
Theatre and Entertainment, PICCADILLY, Curtius Concert Club, 1898-1899 Season, octagonal brass, by Spink, the curtius concert club, stamped 330, rev. season, dates above and below, 24mm, 6.22g (W –; D & W –). Good very fine, very rare; pierced for suspension £30-£40
Gardens, ROTHERHITHE, St Helena Tavern and Gardens, white metal Sixpence by W.J. Taylor, archway leading to garden, building in background, st helena tavern on archway, dinners dress’d, tea gardens on pillars, rotherhithe in exergue, rev. refreshment to the value of sixpence within wreath, 38mm, 17.34g (W 1341; Hayes 191; D & W 81/259; cf. Todd 1320). Light tin pest, otherwise very fine and very rare £50-£70
Hammer Price: £95
Theatre and Entertainment, DRURY LANE, Theatre Royal, Fourth Theatre, copper, drury lane theatre around upper gallery, rev. upper gallery, 31mm, 9.89g (W 215, this piece illustrated; D & W 20/230). Very fine, scarce £70-£90
Hammer Price: £90
Gardens, LAMBETH, Vauxhall Gardens, Britannia, uniface lead trial for a badge, unsigned [by R. Yeo after W. Hogarth], Britannia standing left, holding spear, offering hand to semi-kneeling muse, shield at right, tamen inter arma below, back with traces of the arms of the School for Music, 48mm, 22.80g (cf. W 1373; D & W –). A later striking from the die in lightly rusted state, good very fine, extremely rare £100-£150
Theatre and Entertainment, COVENT GARDEN, Theatre Royal, First Theatre, Life Tontine, 30 January 1795, a printed interest receipt for Eight Pounds, Five Shillings and Eightpence, a Half-Year Annuity upon the life of Chas. Steers, 233 x 90mm. Very fine £20-£30
Hammer Price: £85
Gardens, REGENT’S PARK, Zoological Gardens, Subscriber’s Pass, silver, legend both sides, 23mm, 2.93g (W 1177; D & W 88/323). Very fine and toned, rare £60-£80
Private Roads and Parks, Unattributed (perhaps WINDSOR), cast brass, crowned gr both sides, 25mm, 11.99g (W 1146, and p.156, this piece illustrated; D & W 321/17). Good fine, very rare; with part of integral loop for suspension £60-£80
Theatre and Entertainment, OXFORD STREET, The Pantheon, cast brass, frontal elevation of the Pantheon, rev. pantheon in wreath, 33mm, 13.06g (W 379, this piece illustrated; D & W 33/352). Good fine, rare £70-£90
Hammer Price: £80
Clubs and Societies, A ticket awarded to a pioneer English photographer: FINSBURY CIRCUS, London Institution, 1807, copper, arms of the City, lion crest above, number (510) engraved below, rev. robed female seated right, lamp of wisdom to right, 43mm, 29.81g (W 2671; D & W 157/435). Good very fine £60-£80
Hammer Price: £75
Commerce, Threadneedle Street, Skidmore’s Clerkenwell series, Penny, South Sea House, rev. fictitious arms, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 24.36g/6h (DH Middlesex 162). About extremely fine £80-£100
Clubs and Societies, London Association, copper, 1792, london association above date, back named (I. Wilson), 32mm, 9.86g (W 1993, this piece illustrated; D & W 149/369). Very fine, rare £60-£80
Clubs and Societies, Albemarle Street, The Royal Institution, 1804, copper-gilt, tree springing from mural crown, back named (W. Bridgman Esq), T above, 29mm, 13.32g (W 2679; D & W 157/438). Very fine £80-£100
Hammer Price: £70
Theatre and Entertainment, MARYLEBONE, Marylebone Music Hall, brass, marylebone music hall around baly. in central cartouche, rev. floral border, centre plain, 33mm, 7.61g (W 773; D & W –). Good fine £30-£40
Theatre and Entertainment, STRAND, Theatre Royal English Opera House, uniface copper, t r e o h box around central hole, 38mm, 12.66g (W 358); uniface lead, t r e o h box around 2, 44mm, 15.07g (W 359); uniface lead, 2 galy. above t r e o h, 43mm, 14.64g (W 362; D & W 32/339); octagonal uniface lead, t r e o h above ug 2, 39 x 35mm, 13.07g (W 363); uniface lead, lyceum check in 2 lines, 35mm, 10.91g (W 366, this piece illustrated) [5]. First very fine, others in varied state, mostly rare £80...
Hammer Price: £60
Clubs and Societies, Society of Bucks, silver, by J. Westwood, stag, rev. plough, industry produceth wealth, edge plain, 28mm, 5.41g/11h (DH Middlesex 1043; W 1781; D & W 152/396). Very fine and irregularly toned, rare £80-£100
Theatre and Entertainment, STEPNEY, Royal Pavilion Theatre, John Douglas, brass, royal pavilion theatre around box stamped inverted in centre, rev. douglas whitechapel, 31mm, 9.55g (W 404). Fine to very fine, very rare £70-£90
Hammer Price: £50
Clubs and Societies, FINSBURY CIRCUS, London Institution, 1807, 30 Guinea Subscription, brass, by W. Wyon, lion standing left, holding open scroll with right forepaw, number (1080) engraved below, rev. robed female seated right, lamp of wisdom to right, 43mm, 31.90g (W 2670, this piece illustrated; D & W 156/434). Minor surface marks, otherwise very fine £70-£90
Exhibitions and Museums, EARL’S COURT, Gigantic Wheel, 1897, brass shell, 38mm (W & E 3127C.1); annual medals (9), 1897, 1898 [brass], 1899, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, some by Spink, all copper except as stated, all 32mm (W 1010ff; Hawkins p.699 and pl.xxx, 8); together with a silver medal from the Bygone Britain series, 38mm [11]. First good very fine, last brilliant, others about very fine and better and a complete set [1900 never issued] £30-£40
Theatre and Entertainment, COVENT GARDEN, Theatre Royal, First Theatre, 1762, uniface copper, covent garden around pitt, date below, countermarked with small sideways i, 36mm, 12.88g (W 108, this piece illustrated; D & W –). Minor rim nicks, otherwise about very fine £40-£50
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