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

LANCASHIRE, Liverpool, Liverpool Race Course, an oval silver Proprietor’s ticket by T. Halliday for W.B. Promoli, horses racing past grandstand, rev. arms and supporters, 117 engraved below, 52 x 41mm, 29.92g (W 1542; D & W 322/13). Edge knocks and scuffs, otherwise about very fine, very rare £200-260

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 involvement of August Wilhelm Bernard Promoli, the jeweller who moved from Paris to Church street, Liverpool, in 1836, as sponsor of the ticket would suggest a date of manufacture c. 1840; the grandstand shown was itself completed in 1830