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Gardens, TICKETS and PASSES, Gardens, LAMBETH, Vauxhall Gardens, Statue of Handel, unsigned [by R. Yeo after W. Hogarth], silver, figure of Handel seated, playing a lyre, child at feet recording the music, colonnade behind, blandius orpheo in exergue, back named (Mr Dan: Ponton, 86), 45 x 38mm, 17.23g (W 1353, this piece illustrated; D & W 85/291-3). Minor surface marks, otherwise very fine and toned, extremely rare £800-1,000

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 March 1922]; O.F. Parsons Collection, Baldwin Auction 12, 27 May 1997, lot 1017 [from Baldwin April 1980]; bt Baldwin June 1998