Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection
649
LAMBETH, Vauxhall Gardens, Free Ticket, uniface oval engraved silver by A. Douglas, named (Admit Sir Thos. Turton Bart. Family & Friends), hallmarked London 1821, 75 x 56mm, 23.12g (W 1366, this piece; D & W 88/319; Young, Gardens, p.28, this piece). Very fine and toned, extremely rare; very few similar specimens known Provenance: Baldwin FPL 1998 (102); bt August 1998.
£1,000-£1,500
Sir Thomas Turton, 1st Bt (1764-1844), of Starborough Castle, Surrey, and latterly Grosvenor street, Mayfair; b Nettlebed, Oxon; educ. St Paul’s School and Jesus College, Cambridge; called to the Bar 1794; High Sheriff for Surrey, 1795-6; Major, Surrey Yeomanry Cavalry, 1797; established his chambers in Lincoln’s Inn, 1801; director, Atlas Assurance, 1811, and chairman, 1816. Turton married a Yorkshire heiress, Mary Michell (†1837) in September 1786, who bore him seven children. Nevertheless, according to a report in The Times of 9 March 1820, commenting on his efforts to re-secure the seat of Southwark in that year’s election (that he had won in 1806 and held until 1812), Turton was prepared, even on the hustings, to enter into ‘the history of his youthful adventures a little more explicitly than we can decently report’. Apparently, scurrility was a feature of Southwark elections, and at Turton’s first appearance there in 1802, which proved unsuccessful, he was obliged to gloss over his adultery with Mrs Margaret Dunnage, wife of James Dunnage, a City merchant, which had cost him £5,000 damages in 1797. The report of the trial, held at the Guildhall on 14 June 1797, detailing their affair over some 18 months in 1795-6, at various parks, gardens and houses on both sides of the river, was the talk of the City. Lady Turton showed ‘the accommodating spirit of modern wives’ by appearing in company with Mrs Dunnage on that occasion. Turton nominated Admiral Sir Alan Gardner for Westminster (see Lot 613). The Turton family are buried in the family vault at the Turton Chapel, Lingfield
650
SOUTHWARK, Finch’s Grotto Gardens, 1764, uniface brass, THE GROTTO and date, 25mm, 5.65g (W 1317, this piece illustrated; D & W 72/195; Young, Gardens, p.84, this piece). Good fine, extremely rare Provenance: Tim Millett FPL 2008 (57); bt May 2008.
£300-£360
Finch’s Grotto Gardens, St George’s Fields, Southwark, were based on a property inherited by the herald painter Thomas Finch (†October 1770) from an aunt. Finch opened the attraction on 17 May 1760, which centred on a grotto built over a mineral spring. Engaging those performing artistes mostly in the decline of their careers, the venture was not destined to endure and, inherited by his widow Grace, it had closed by 1775; the adjoining house was demolished and a workhouse built on the site
Hospitals 651
SOHO, Royal Infirmary for Children, copper, unsigned [after P. Wyon], seated female with three children being offered a cup by Hygeia, rev. ROYAL INFIRMARY FOR CHILDREN ESTABLISHED 26 APRIL 1820 in six lines, 33mm, 13.00g (W 2693; D & W 156/433; BHM 1065). Good fine and patinated, scarce Provenance: Bt M.C.S. Rasmussen November 2015.
£40-£50
The Royal Infirmary for Children, formerly known as the Royal Infirmary for Sick Children and by other names from its foundation in the early 19th century, was situated in Brewer street, Golden square. It acquired the name as shown on the medal in 1843 and it is thought that this piece dates to c. 1855-60
Railways
652
FARRINGDON, Metropolitan Railway, ivory, METROPOLITAN around RAILWAY, rev. DAILY TELEGRPH., 19mm (W 2872, this piece, recté 19mm). Good very fine, a very rare and very early Underground railway item Provenance: Acquired 1970.
£100-£150
The Metropolitan Railway, the world’s first underground system, opened in 1863, only eight years after the launch of the original Daily Telegraph & Courier in 1855, London’s first penny newspaper. Ivory tokens for this type of VIP use were almost universally replaced by gold or silver by 1870.
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