Noonans
Auction 160 5-6 Jun 2019
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Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection
Gardens, BROMPTON, Cromwell Gardens, lead Sixpence, c. 1765, crude bust of Oliver Cromwell left, olivar d g r p ang sco hib & pro, rev. pax qværitvr bello, crowned arms in imitation of the Cromwell coinage flanking crom garden, value below, 30mm, 10.53g (W 1310; D & W 67/170; Young, Gardens, p.86, this piece; cf. Baldwin FPL 1998, 99). Test scratches both sides, fair, very rare £60-£80
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Provenance: Red Cross Sale, Christie's Auction, 12-27 April 1915, lot unspecified; bt Baldwin December 1989.
Cromwell Gardens, opened in the early 1760s, was named after a tradition that Oliver Cromwell once lived in the neighbourhood, though this is unproven. The early lessee was John Clarke and this admission ticket was exchangeable for refreshments
Gardens, BROMPTON, Cromwell Gardens, lead Sixpence, c. 1765, crude bust of Oliver Cromwell left, olivar d g r p ang sco hib & pro, rev. pax qværitvr bello, crowned arms in imitation of the Cromwell coinage flanking crom garden, value below, 30mm, 10.53g (W 1310; D & W 67/170; Young, Gardens, p.86, this piece; cf. Baldwin FPL 1998, 99). Test scratches both sides, fair, very rare £60-£80
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Provenance: Red Cross Sale, Christie's Auction, 12-27 April 1915, lot unspecified; bt Baldwin December 1989.
Cromwell Gardens, opened in the early 1760s, was named after a tradition that Oliver Cromwell once lived in the neighbourhood, though this is unproven. The early lessee was John Clarke and this admission ticket was exchangeable for refreshments