British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes

LONDON, Haymarket, Her Majesty’s Theatre, 1857, oval bone, her majesty’s theatre above date, rev. named (Sir Wm. Abdy, Box 52, 2), 49 x 33mm, 5.00g (W 341). Cracked and repaired, otherwise very fine, very rare; pierced for suspension £150-£200

Sir William Abdy, 7th Bt (1779-1868), b Marylebone; educ. Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford; Lt, South Essex Militia, 1798, and later 2nd Lt of the Southwark Volunteers; MP for Malmesbury 1817-18; co-owner of three estates in Antigua and St Vincent and was compensated for the liberation of over 300 slaves after emancipation; married Anne Wellesley, eldest daughter of Richard, 1st Marquess, but after her affair with Lord Charles Bentinck they divorced in 1816; he never remarried and died without legitimate issue.