Magistrate’s Admission Ticket In Bronze, Pierced For Wearing, c.1810. Magistrates Medal Of Admission To The Courts. By Younge And Deakin. Engraved To Sir William Ingilby, 1783-1854. 44mm. Rare.
 
Sir William Amcotts-Ingilby was an MP for East Retford as Member of Parliament in the House of Commons in 1807. Ingilby left Parliament in 1812 later to rejoin Parliament in a by-election, in 1823 as MP for Lincolnshire. He then held that seat until the abolition of that constituency in 1832, then sitting for North Lincolnshire until defeated in the election of 1835.
 
Cf: A similar example can be found in the British Museum Collection, number: MG.1556. An example can be found in the Collection Formed by the Late Richard Law, Noonans 09/12/2014, lot 3119. Also Noonans, 15-16/03/2017, lot 1019; 30/09/2021, lot 598. An example can be found Noble, 4-6/08/1999, lot 830.
 
A rich medium brown tone, some light surface marks and signs of handling / use. Contemporary piercing for wearing.