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CAMBRIDGESHIRE/SUFFOLK, Newmarket, [Newmarket Stand], an engraved silver pass, unsigned, two-tiered grandstand, rev. named (The Honble. Lord Newbattle), M above, 39mm, 15.14g (W 1576; MG 1233). Good very fine, rare £300-400

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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Provenance: R. Streather Collection, Spink Auction 21, 1 April 1982, lot 959; W.J. Noble Collection, Part II, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 61B (Melbourne), 3-4 August 1999, lot 1080.

John Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian, PC (1794-1841), styled Lord Newbattle until 1815 and subsequently the Earl of Ancram; Tory MP for Huntingdon 1820-4; Lord-Lieutenant of Roxburghshire 1824-41; Capt of the Yeomen of the Guard, September 1841