Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection
637
CORNHILL, Richardson, Goodluck & Co, New State Lottery, 5 September 1803, printed publicity sheet detailing the Scheme, offering 24,000 tickets at a total value of £210,000, prizes to be paid two months after the drawing ends, in full, or on demand, the verso detailing the Capital Prizes sold by the firm in 1802, 220 x 140mm, together with a wooden printer’s block depicting the obv. of their Halfpenny, 1795, 45mm; Pidding & Co, State Lottery of 8,000 Tickets, 4 March 1814, printed advertisement, engraving of actress above a 14-line verse, 188 x 112mm; Thomas Bish, a One- Sixteenth Share of the First [Lottery] for 1815, 7 November 1815, no.11265, printed in red and black, 173 x 72mm [4]. First fine, others very fine Provenance: Bt April 2006.
£30-£40
Richardson, Goodluck & Co, corner of Bank Buildings, Cornhill and King’s Mews, Charing Cross; Pidding & Co, 1 Cornhill and 3 Charing Cross; Thomas Bish, 4 Cornhill and 9 Charing Cross. Despite being called the state lottery, it was privatised. Contractors, often companies involved in stockbroking and banking, would bid for the right to run the lottery at a profit to themselves. Companies with names such as Bish, Richardson and Goodluck and Hazard and Burne would offer lottery tickets in advertisements that would dominate the front pages of newspapers and boast about the number of winning tickets they had sold. The Richardson company had paid £50 to a Mrs Goodluck for the right to use her name. Although based in London, to achieve nationwide distribution they would appoint agents all over the country. Booksellers were preferred, as it was thought that this added to their brand, but high class grocers, goldsmiths and watchmakers were also acceptable, chosen as places where the poor would not go. Lotteries of this type were declared illegal in 1826
638
COVENT GARDEN, [Henry] Jernegan’s Lottery, 1736, a silver medal by J.S. Tanner after H.F. Gravelot, Minerva standing between trophies and emblems, rev. Queen Caroline waters a grove of palm trees, 39mm, 20.50g (W 1714, this piece illustrated; MI II, 517/72; E 537). Excess of metal on reverse rim, otherwise very fine and toned Provenance: Tim Millett FPL 2002 (291); bt May 2002.
£60-£80
Henry Jernegan (†1761), a London goldsmith based in Russell street, commissioned a cistern from the Flemish sculptor John Michael Rysbrack (1694-1770) in 1734-5 for his client, Littleton Poyntz Meynell (1699-1751), a member of the Derbyshire landed gentry, who wanted to own the largest wine cooler ever made. The cooler was to weigh 8,000 ounces and be decorated with Bacchanalian scenes. Meynell welched on his deal to pay for it and so Jernegan offered it as the prize in a lottery, funds from the sale of tickets for which would go towards the rebuilding of Westminster Bridge. Each ticket holder was given a silver medal, valued at about three shillings. About 30,000 tickets were sold, raising a sum in excess of £9,000. The winner of the cooler, Major William Battine of East Marden, Sussex, appears to have sold it to the regent Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna of Russia in 1738, and it is now in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
Gardens
639
BERMONDSEY, Bermondsey Spa Gardens, Thomas Keyse, Skidmore’s Halfpenny, 1786, copper, BERMONDSEY SPA GARDENS around conjoined Ts between two keys, rev. musical instruments around flaming heart, edge SKIDMORE HOLBORN LONDON, 12.95g/10h (DH Surrey 4; W 1301, this piece illustrated; D & W 65/158; Young, Gardens, p.79, this piece). Collector’s number ‘2122’ in lower obverse field, otherwise extremely fine and patinated, extremely rare
£700-£900
Provenance: D.T. Batty Collection; W. Longman Collection, Glendining Auction, 12-13 March 1958, lot 262 (part); D.L. Spence Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 67A, 29 September 2005, lot 1703 [from Baldwin November 1973]; R.S. Bole Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 68A, 15 December 2005, lot 2097.
Superior to the specimen illustrated in DH; only one other example seen by the cataloguer in commerce. Thomas Keys, or Keyse (1722 -1800), b. Gloucester, a self-taught artist, bought the Waterman's Arms and four acres of land in Bermondsey in 1766, which he laid out as a tea-garden and named it the Bermondsey Spa Garden; subsequently he hosted musical concerts and erected a picture gallery and museum on the site. After Keys’ death the popularity of the Garden declined and by 1806 it had closed
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