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Auction: 24025 - Historical Documents Featuring the Major David Cecil Underwood Jr Collection of Royal Visits to India 1876-1906
Lot: 4

Great Britain
Coronation
King George III
1761 Elaborately engraved "Coronation Ticket WESTMINSTER ABBEY Sep'br 22 1761", numbered 177, entrance to the "Upper Gallery, North Side, Arch 8, Row 1, Seat 2". Signed by J. Heaton at the lower right, engraved by George Bickham, with a clear seal to the top left. The engraved scene depicts King George and Queen Charlotte seated in the Abbey, surrounded by attendees wearing their coronets, a scroll at the base titled "Magna Carta" and the letters SPQB on a pillar above the Monarch and Consort, "Senatus Populas Que Britannorum" (Senate and People of Britannia).
The rarest of all Coronation tickets, two vertical folds hardly visible from the front (10x11 inches)

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