Auction Catalogue

7 October 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 595

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7 October 2009

Hammer Price:
£130

Theatre and Entertainment, LONDON, Coventry Street, Prince’s Theatre, uniface copper, PRINCES THEATRE, 30mm, 11.92g (D & W 34/364; MG 349; Noble II, 710); uniface copper Transfer ticket, PIT TO LOWER around colour transfer PRINCE’S CIRCLE, 31mm, 10.00g (D & W 34/368; Noble II, 677); Dorset Gardens, Queen’s Theatre, 1684, gilt copper, bust of Maria d’Este right, rev. FOR THE FIRST GALERIE above date, 31mm, 11.74g (D & W 23/261; MG 78) [3]. First fine but scuffed, second good fine but transfer partly worn, last mediocre £60-80

Provenance: First F.W. Yeates Collection, F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Baldwin June 1923]; second Glendining Auction, 8 November 1933, lot 181 (part), F.S. Cokayne Collection