Key. A fine Victorian steel key engraved South St Gate T Somers Cocks Esq

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Key. A fine Victorian steel key, one side engraved 'South St Gate' with VR and crown, the other 'T Somers Cocks Esq Chapel St', 9cm long

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Provenance: Collection of Jack Webb (1923-2019), London.

Thomas Somers-Cocks (1815-1899) was a Conservative Party politician and a banker. He was a founding member of the Canterbury Association which was formed in order to establish a colony in the South Island of New Zealand. Somers-Cocks became the banker for the group.