British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes

HAMPSHIRE, Bisley, National Rifle Association, Life Member’s Pass, bone, bowman and rifleman standing, rev. legend, named (Th. Wright) ink script below unclear, 45mm, 9.55g (W 1509). Small surface flaw, otherwise very fine and very rare; pierced for suspension £100-£150

Col. Thomas Yates Wright, MBE, VD (1869-1964), tea-planter, cricketer and legislator in Ceylon; founding president of the Ceylon Athletic Association; served as a 2nd Lt in the Ceylon Planters’ Rifle Corps in the Boer War and was the CO of the Corps from July 1904 to February 1912.