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Sold on 27 August 2020

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Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection

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№ 645

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27 August 2020

Hammer Price:
£750

Gardens, LAMBETH, Vauxhall Gardens, engraved silver lozenge-shape, musical instruments, rev. named (Eyres Esqr.), 50 x 38mm, 8.11g (W 1356; D & W 86/297; Young, Gardens, p.22, this piece). Very fine and toned, extremely rare; pierced for suspension £600-£800

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 S.H. Monks August 2004.

Henry Samuel Eyre (1676-1754), a City wine merchant, acquired the majority of the estate of St John’s Wood, around 500 acres, from Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, on 22 March 1732. The St John's Wood estate came to be known as the Eyre estate after it was developed by Walpole Eyre (1735-73) and his successors