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Auction 249 1-2 Feb 2022
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Refreshment and Accommodation, ST PAUL'S, Sir Paul Pindar, 1756, an openwork uniface brass badge, crude facing bust, 34mm, 16.69g (W –; D & W –; cf. DNW 143, 30). Very fine and very rare £80-£100
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Provenance: F.W. Yeates Collection; F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Baldwin August 1923]; bt S.H. Monks June 2009.
This badge is believed to be related to the Sir Paul Pindar's Head tavern which flourished in the last third of the 18th century. Sir Paul Pindar (1565-1650), b. Wellingborough, was a London merchant and member of the Turkey Company who, in 1611, had been appointed Ambassador to the Grand Seignior at Constantinople. The timber-frame of his house in Bishopsgate Street Without was built in 1599-1600 and, when demolished to facilitate the expansion of Liverpool Street station, was presented to the Victoria and Albert Museum
Refreshment and Accommodation, ST PAUL'S, Sir Paul Pindar, 1756, an openwork uniface brass badge, crude facing bust, 34mm, 16.69g (W –; D & W –; cf. DNW 143, 30). Very fine and very rare £80-£100
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Provenance: F.W. Yeates Collection; F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Baldwin August 1923]; bt S.H. Monks June 2009.
This badge is believed to be related to the Sir Paul Pindar's Head tavern which flourished in the last third of the 18th century. Sir Paul Pindar (1565-1650), b. Wellingborough, was a London merchant and member of the Turkey Company who, in 1611, had been appointed Ambassador to the Grand Seignior at Constantinople. The timber-frame of his house in Bishopsgate Street Without was built in 1599-1600 and, when demolished to facilitate the expansion of Liverpool Street station, was presented to the Victoria and Albert Museum