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Education, CLAPTON, London Orphan Asylum, copper, legend, rev. 20, 24mm, 4.88g (W –; D & W 253/372). About very fine
£40-£50

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: DNW Auction T14, 1 October 2014, lot 595 (part).

The London Orphan Asylum was founded in 1813 by Congregationalist minister Andrew Reed. In 1820 land was purchased off Lower Clapton road and a purpose-built orphanage erected by 1825. In 1871 the orphanage removed to Watford