British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

Gardens, LAMBETH, Vauxhall Gardens, triangular uniface silver, unsigned, Apollo standing facing, playing a lyre, back named (The Rt. Honble. The Lady King, 2), 39 x 26mm, 3.67g (W –; D & W –). Flan a trifle bent at lower right, otherwise very fine and exceptionally rare; with integral loop for suspension £500-£700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection.

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Provenance: F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Baldwin October 1928, £21, ‘unpublished and unique’]; bt Baldwin April 2008.

Anne, Lady King, Baroness of Ockham (1688-1767), née Seyes, Welsh aristocrat and philanthropist originally from Boverton, Glamorgan, married the lawyer and politician Peter King, 1st Baron King (1669-1734) in 1704. They had six children and lived at Ockham, Surrey. Her husband was MP for Bere Alston 1700-15, and later appointed Speaker in the House of Lords and Lord Chancellor in 1725