British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

Exhibitions and Museums, PICCADILLY, Egyptian Hall, white metal, by J. Bonomi for Pinches, egyptian hall piccadilly painted by henry warren joseph bonomi james fahey daily at three & eight, rev. Bedouin on camel walking right, panorama of the nile above, 36mm, 17.55g (W 1015, this piece illustrated; Young, Entertainments, p.29, this piece). Extremely fine and very rare £150-£200

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: Tim Millett FPL 2005 (101); bt April 2005.

Joseph Bonomi (1796-1878), sculptor, Egyptologist and, late in life, curator of Sir John Soane’s Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, better known numismatically as the designer of a pattern coin with Egyptian images in 1837, subsequently transformed into a series of pattern crowns struck by Pinches to the order of J. Rochelle Thomas in 1893