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Theatre and Entertainment, TICKETS and PASSES, Theatre and Entertainment, Travelling location, Bannister’s Travelling Circus, brass, [c. 1815], man standing on the back of a horse galloping right, waving a flag, bannister in exergue, rev. figure on a tightrope holding a balancing pole, 30mm, 7.99g (W 954; D & W 9/92). Even wear, fine £80-100

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 R. Gladdle November 2000.

James Bannister, impresario; his daughter, Sarah, was the star attraction at her father’s self-styled Olympic Circus which toured the country in the second decade of the 19th century. After Bannister was declared bankrupt in 1819 she joined the famous Astley’s circus