TICKETS AND PASSES FROM VARIOUS PROPERTIES TICKETS AND PASSES FROM VARIOUS PROPERTIES 3455
LONDON, New Royal Exchange, 1840, ivory, triangle of shields on scroll, rev. legend, named (William Tite, Architect), 49mm, 16.35g (W –; D & W –). Good very fine, very rare
£200-400
Sir William Tite, CB, FRS (1798-1873), architect; b St Bartholomew the Great, London; articled to David Laing of Hatton Garden, 1820; built the Scottish church at St Pancras for Edward Irving, 1827-8; assisted in the design of the London & Westminster Bank head office in Lothbury, 1838; elected to the Society of Antiquaries 1839; won the second competition to rebuild the Royal Exchange, 1840, the edifice opening in 1844; designed many early railway stations, including Vauxhall (Nine Elms), Southampton, Gosport, Eton & Windsor Riverside, Barnes, Chiswick, Kew Bridge, Carlisle Citadel and Axminster; landscaped Brookwood Cemetery, Woking, 1853-4; MP for Bath 1855-73; awarded the RIBA Gold Medal, 1856; Kt 1869; CB 1870; d. Torquay 20 April 1873.
Please note that ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to export and other trade restrictions
3456
LONDON, Zoological Society of London, bone, legend, named (Major Genl. Charles Steuart), rev. L S NO. 32 TRANSFERABLE, 43mm, 7.55g (W –; D & W –). Very fine with attractive rich colouring, very rare; pierced for wearing
£240-300
Charles Steuart, C.B. (†22 May 1873), 14th Light Dragoons, served with his regiment in the Punjab campaign, 1848-9, receiving a sabre wound at the battle of Chilianwala (medal with two clasps, Chilianwala and Goojerat), then pursuing the Sikhs across the Jhelum and the Afghans over the Indus and through the Khyber Pass. He commanded a cavalry brigade in the Persian Expedition in 1857. Made a C.B. in January 1858, he later commanded a brigade in the Central India Field Force under Sir Hugh Rose, being present at the siege and capture of Rathgur, action of Barodia, relief of Saugor, capture of Garrakota, forcing the Muddenpore Pass, siege and capture of Jhansi, and the battles of Betwa and Koonch. Retiring from his regiment in June 1861 he was appointed Major-General in October 1864. He was appointed Colonel of the 11th Hussars on 19 January 1873 but died four months later
3457
NORTHUMBERLAND,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Newcastle Grand Stand, 1800, silver, unsigned, grandstand, rev. horse standing right, held by a jockey, named (Heny. Uttrick Reay, Esqr.), 31mm, 13.07g (W 1545; D & W 323/17; cf. DNW 138, 3236-7). Pierced for suspension, good fine and very rare
£150-200
Henry Uttrick Reay (1750-1828), Killingworth House, Northumberland, mining magnate
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