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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, Theatre and Entertainment, Travelling location, Bannister's Travelling Circus, brass, [c. 1815], man standing on the back of a horse galloping right, waving a flag, bannister in exergue, rev. figure on a tightrope holding a balancing pole, 30mm, 7.99g (W 954; D & W 9/92). Even wear, fine £80-100
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Provenance: Bt R. Gladdle November 2000.
James Bannister, impresario; his daughter, Sarah, was the star attraction at her father's self-styled Olympic Circus which toured the country in the second decade of the 19th century. After Bannister was declared bankrupt in 1819 she joined the famous Astley's circus
TICKETS and PASSES, Theatre and Entertainment, Travelling location, Bannister's Travelling Circus, brass, [c. 1815], man standing on the back of a horse galloping right, waving a flag, bannister in exergue, rev. figure on a tightrope holding a balancing pole, 30mm, 7.99g (W 954; D & W 9/92). Even wear, fine £80-100
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Provenance: Bt R. Gladdle November 2000.
James Bannister, impresario; his daughter, Sarah, was the star attraction at her father's self-styled Olympic Circus which toured the country in the second decade of the 19th century. After Bannister was declared bankrupt in 1819 she joined the famous Astley's circus