The Collection of British Tokens formed by Ivor Bridges

Tickets and Passes, SOMERSET, Bath, Spring Gardens, brass Sixpence, legend both sides, 31mm, 6.49g (MY 79; W 1192). About extremely fine, most attractive and very rare £150-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of British Tokens formed by Ivor Bridges.

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Bt June 1964.

The Spring Gardens, situated on the side of the river Avon, had opened by 1769. Admission was by a sixpenny ticket that entitled the bearer to anything at the bar to that value. The gardens closed in September 1796