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, from the same dies as previous, rev. engraved 153, 52 x 41mm, 30.36g (W 1542; D & W 322/13). Light scuffing, otherwise good very fine and toned, very rare £400-500

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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Provenance: The 13th Earl of Eglinton, and by descent to the 18th Earl, from whom the ticket was acquired in November 1994.

Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton and 1st Earl of Winton, KT, PC (1812-61), b. Palermo, Sicily; educ. Eton; appointed a Tory whip in the House of Lords, 1846; Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 1852-3 and 1858-9; d St Andrews October 1861. Lord Eglinton’s main object of interest was the turf. To this end he kept a large racing stud, his most successful horse being The Flying Dutchman, winner of the Epsom Derby and the St Leger in 1849