Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection
Education, REGENT STREET, Polytechnic Institution, 1840, white metal, by A.J. Stothard, conjoined busts of Victoria and Albert left, rev. helmeted head of Britannia left, 28mm, 10.57g (W & E 215A.1; W –; D & W 80/248). Good very fine; usual alteration of 4 in date £10-£20
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Provenance: Bt February 2013.
The Polytechnic in Regent street, now the main campus of the University of Westminster, was built in 1837 and opened on 6 August 1838. Prince Albert visited in 1840 and became a patron the following year