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Theatre and Entertainment, TICKETS and PASSES, Theatre and Entertainment, Travelling location, Lord John Sanger & Sons Ltd, uniface brass Shilling and octagonal Sixpence, both lord john sanger & son ltd, value below, 41mm, 13.36g and 34mm, 8.67g (W 974-5) [2]. First fine, second very fine; with central holes £70-90

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: W.J. Noble Collection, Part II, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 61B (Melbourne), 3-4 August 1999, lot 752 (part) [from S.E. Schwer 1984] bt L. McCarthy November 2002.

‘Lord’ John Sanger (1816-89) and his brother George (1827-1911) were famous Victorian showmen, credited with elevating the British circus into a serious spectacle, partly in response to massed American touring companies like those of ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody. In 1871 the Sangers bought Astley’s Amphitheatre in Lambeth and ran it until 1884