Coins, Paper Money, Tokens and Historical Medals

YORKSHIRE, Doncaster, Doncaster [Grandstand], an engraved oval silver ticket, grandstand, back stamped 125, maker’s stamp wc, 53 x 39mm, 11.82g (W –; D & W –; cf. Baldwin FPL 1995, 350). Very fine and extremely rare
£400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Racing Tickets and Passes, the Property of a North Country Collector.

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One of the oldest established centres for horse racing in Britain, there are records of regular race meetings being held at Doncaster in the 16th century and a racecourse was marked out as far back as 1614. By the 1760s the meetings were increasing in importance and in 1776 the St Leger, the world’s oldest classic horse race, was first run