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Gardens, TICKETS and PASSES, Gardens, BERMONDSEY, Bermondsey Spa Gardens, Thomas Keyse, copper Halfpenny, 1796, t. keys bermondsey spa garden, rev. conjoined ts between two keys, edge engrailed, 9.26g/12h (W 1305, this piece illustrated; DH Surrey 5; D & W 65/159). Usual die flaw on obverse, otherwise about extremely fine, very rare £300-400

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]; bt Baldwin August 1991.

The Gardens were opened by Thomas Keyse (1722-1800), a self-taught artist, in 1766. Initially a tea garden, the discovery of a mineral spring aided its popularity and by 1784 it had become a pleasure ground. By the turn of the 19th century its popularity had declined and it was closed c. 1806