A Fine Collection of Racing Tickets and Passes, the Property of a North Country Collector

YORKSHIRE, Doncaster, Subscription Stand Erected 1826, an octagonal silver pass, unsigned [by Wilson], two racehorses galloping to left, for noblemen and gentlemen below, back named (No. 55, Honble. G. Byng, not Transferable), 55 x 37mm, 43.08g (D & W –; cf. Baldwin FPL 1993, 72; cf. Noble II, 1073 [= DNW 47, 429]). Polished, otherwise good very fine and extremely rare; in contemporary maroon leather fitted case £800-1,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Racing Tickets and Passes, the Property of a North Country Collector.

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Provenance: Baldwin FPL 1994 (138).

George Byng, DL, JP (1764-1847), of Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire; Whig MP for Middlesex 1790-1847, Father of the House 1832-47