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Auction 141 14-16 Jun 2017
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TICKETS AND PASSES OF LONDON FROM THE DAVID YOUNG COLLECTION (PART I)
TICKETS and PASSES, Gardens, MARYLEBONE, Marylebone Gardens, 1771, oval copper bracteate, marylebone gardens flanked by floral ornaments, no. 658, aba monogram engraved in centre, 44 x 35mm, 5.64g (W 1330, this piece illustrated; D & W 78/237-8). Slight crease mark, otherwise very fine and very rare £400-500
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Provenance: Baldwin FPL 1996 (98).
Marylebone Gardens occupied the site of what is now bounded by Beaumont and Devonshire streets, Upper Wimpole and Upper Harley streets. Opened in the late 17th century, they enjoyed a zenith of popularity in the 1730s and 1740s and subsequently were enlarged to some 8 acres in 1753, but by the mid-1760s decline set in and the gardens ceased to open regularly in 1776
TICKETS and PASSES, Gardens, MARYLEBONE, Marylebone Gardens, 1771, oval copper bracteate, marylebone gardens flanked by floral ornaments, no. 658, aba monogram engraved in centre, 44 x 35mm, 5.64g (W 1330, this piece illustrated; D & W 78/237-8). Slight crease mark, otherwise very fine and very rare £400-500
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Provenance: Baldwin FPL 1996 (98).
Marylebone Gardens occupied the site of what is now bounded by Beaumont and Devonshire streets, Upper Wimpole and Upper Harley streets. Opened in the late 17th century, they enjoyed a zenith of popularity in the 1730s and 1740s and subsequently were enlarged to some 8 acres in 1753, but by the mid-1760s decline set in and the gardens ceased to open regularly in 1776