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Gardens, LAMBETH, Vauxhall Gardens, Britannia, uniface lead trial for a badge, unsigned [by R. Yeo after W. Hogarth], Britannia standing left, holding spear, offering hand to semi-kneeling muse, shield at right, tamen inter arma below, back with traces of the arms of the School for Music, 48mm, 22.80g (cf. W 1373; D & W –). A later striking from the die in lightly rusted state, good very fine, extremely rare £150-200

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.W. Yeates Collection; F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Baldwin May 1923]; DNW Auction T7, 7 October 2009, lot 585