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Auction 150 3 Oct 2018
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LONDON, New Royal Exchange, 1840, ivory, triangle of shields on scroll, rev. legend, named (William Tite, Architect), 49mm, 16.35g (W –; D & W –). Good very fine, very rare £200-400
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Sir William Tite, CB, FRS (1798-1873), architect; b St Bartholomew the Great, London; articled to David Laing of Hatton Garden, 1820; built the Scottish church at St Pancras for Edward Irving, 1827-8; assisted in the design of the London & Westminster Bank head office in Lothbury, 1838; elected to the Society of Antiquaries 1839; won the second competition to rebuild the Royal Exchange, 1840, the edifice opening in 1844; designed many early railway stations, including Vauxhall (Nine Elms), Southampton, Gosport, Eton & Windsor Riverside, Barnes, Chiswick, Kew Bridge, Carlisle Citadel and Axminster; landscaped Brookwood Cemetery, Woking, 1853-4; MP for Bath 1855-73; awarded the RIBA Gold Medal, 1856; Kt 1869; CB 1870; d. Torquay 20 April 1873.
Please note that ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to export and other trade restrictions
LONDON, New Royal Exchange, 1840, ivory, triangle of shields on scroll, rev. legend, named (William Tite, Architect), 49mm, 16.35g (W –; D & W –). Good very fine, very rare £200-400
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Sir William Tite, CB, FRS (1798-1873), architect; b St Bartholomew the Great, London; articled to David Laing of Hatton Garden, 1820; built the Scottish church at St Pancras for Edward Irving, 1827-8; assisted in the design of the London & Westminster Bank head office in Lothbury, 1838; elected to the Society of Antiquaries 1839; won the second competition to rebuild the Royal Exchange, 1840, the edifice opening in 1844; designed many early railway stations, including Vauxhall (Nine Elms), Southampton, Gosport, Eton & Windsor Riverside, Barnes, Chiswick, Kew Bridge, Carlisle Citadel and Axminster; landscaped Brookwood Cemetery, Woking, 1853-4; MP for Bath 1855-73; awarded the RIBA Gold Medal, 1856; Kt 1869; CB 1870; d. Torquay 20 April 1873.
Please note that ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to export and other trade restrictions