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

BERKSHIRE, Greenham, Newbury Race Club, 1907, an enamelled brass badge by Bowman Ltd, back stamped 159, 37 x 30mm, 8.07g; Newbury, 1908, an enamelled brass badge by Bowman Ltd, back stamped 218, 30 x 23mm, 4.90g; Windsor, Royal Windsor, 1931, an enamelled brass badge by W.O. Lewis, stamped 36; Royal Windsor Race Club, 1939, an enamelled brass badge by W.O. Lewis, back stamped 281; Royal Windsor, 1947, an enamelled brass badge by W.O. Lewis, back stamped 37; Royal Windsor, 1949, an enamelled brass badge by W.O. Lewis, back stamped 114; Royal Windsor, 1950, an enamelled brass badge by W.O. Lewis, back stamped 62 [7]. Third and fourth extremely fine, others very fine £50-70

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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The first recorded horse race meeting at Newbury was held on Enborne Heath in 1805, but the current course at Greenham witnessed its first race meeting in September 1905 after the formation of the Newbury Racecourse Co, in which Edward VII was a prime mover. The first meeting at Rays Meadow, the current site for Windsor racecourse, was held in 1866 as the brainchild of John Frail, a former barber who was a political confidante of Benjamin Disraeli