admission-ticket
- Museum number
- MG.878
- Description
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Ticket for the Great Exhibition in 1851; ivory; obverse: engraved inscription; reverse: inscription.
- Production date
- 1851
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.31 inches
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The letter from Mrs Trimbush in the Montague Guest papers is addresed to an unnamed recipient and reads:
'Terrington Rectory, York
Nov 12 1898
Madam
I have Mr Gladstone's pass to the Great Exhibition & should like to dispose of it.
It is a round of ivory or bone about the size of half-a-crown, enclosed in what looks like an olive wood box - it has on one side
No.9 / Exhibition Pass to Works / of 1851
& on the other
Not / Transferable / Rt Honble W E. / Gladsotne, M. P.
It was given to my father, the late Revd James Harris, from a Christmas Tree at Hawarden Castle either in 1851 or 1852.
I have also an old play-bill, dated April, 1785.
If you are disposed to purchase either of these will you please let me know a probable price.
Yours truly
(Mrs) Mary E. Trimbush'
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Great Exhibition
- Acquisition date
- 1907
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired by Montague Guest from Mrs Mary Trimbush in 1898, see transcipt of letter under 'Comment'.
- Department
- Coins and Medals
- Registration number
- MG.878
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: G.878
