British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

Outside London and Travelling Circuses, INVERNESS-SHIRE, Fort Augustus, Gordon Cummings, Two Shillings, copper, courage on banner above lion rampant left, gordon cummings wild sports around, rev. value between ornamental panels, 36mm, 17.86g (W 993, this piece illustrated). Some nicks and marks, otherwise about very fine, rare £80-£100

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: Bt L. McCarthy November 2002.

Roualeyn Gordon Cummings (1820-66), second son of Sir William Gordon-Cummings of Gordonstoun; educ. Eton; Cornet, 4th Madras Light Cavalry, 1838; resigned his commission 1840; became a professional game hunter, firstly in North America, then in Africa; established a private museum at Fort Augustus, 1858