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Exhibitions and Museums, TICKETS and PASSES, Exhibitions and Museums, BAKER STREET, Madame Tussaud’s, brass Shilling, [c. 1850], madame tussaud & sons exhibition, centre stamped 141, rev. baker street portman square around value, 37mm, 14.04g (Young, Entertainments, p.41, this piece; W 1041; D & W 82/265). Fine to very fine; with central hole £40-50

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: Bt S.H. Monks January 2003.

Marie Tussaud, née Grosholtz (1761-1850), wax modeller, first exhibited her work in London in 1802. After touring the UK and Ireland she took a lease at the Baker street bazaar in 1832. New galleries on the present site on the Marylebone road were opened in 1884