Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection Refreshment and Accommodation


653


COVENT GARDEN, Low’s Hotel, 1774, silver, by J. Kirk, frontal elevation of building, LOW’S GRAND HOTEL COVENT GARDEN LONDON and date around, rev. FOR THE RECEPTION OF NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN within wreath, edge plain, 34mm, 13.07g (W 2435; D & W 77/227). Some staining on rims, otherwise very fine, reverse better, extremely rare in silver Provenance: Bt S.H. Monks February 2005.


£240-£300


Low’s Grand Hotel, 43 King street, proprietor David Low, opened in January 1774; Low became a chiropodist and the owner by 1793 was Charles Richardson (†May 1827; see next Lot). By the early 1850s it had passed into the hands of John ‘Paddy’ Green, who added a new music hall; the acts eventually outgrew the facility, which closed in 1880


654


rev. stamped POT, 31mm, 6.85g (W 2437; D & W 77/229; Young, Entertainments, p.61, this piece). Good fine, rare


Provenance: Bt S.H. Monks February 2012 COVENT GARDEN, Charles Richardson, 1793, uniface brass, C RICHARDSON COVENT GARDEN around date and COFFEE HOUSE,


£60-£80


655


FLEET STREET, Rainbow Coffee House, uniface copper, RAINBOW COFFEE HOUSE, centre stamped 1, back stamped 2, 25mm, 7.08g (W 2443, this piece). Obverse rim knock at 2 o’clock, otherwise very fine and very rare Provenance: F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Spink February 1931]; bt Spink October 2008.


£70-£90


The Rainbow coffee house, 15 Fleet street, better known as Farr’s after its founder, the barber-surgeon and token-issuer Joseph Farr, opened in 1656/7. By the time of the appearance of this ticket, c. 1780, the house was under the proprietorship of Alexander Moncrieff


656


ISLINGTON, Highbury Barn Tavern, Sixpences (2), octagonal zinc, HIGHBURY BARN GARDENS ISLINGTON, rev. REFRESHMENTS SIXPENCE, 30mm, 8.39g (W 1320; Hayes 121a), white metal, HIGHBURY BARN, rev. REFRESHMENTS SIXPENCE, 26mm, 8.88g (W 1324, this piece illustrated; D & W 75/217; Hayes 121c); uniface white metal, HIGHBURY BARN TAVERN, 33mm, 9.05g (W 1323; Hayes 121) [3]. Last very fine, others fine or better


£40-£60 Provenance: W 1320 bt June 2012; W 1323 bt S.H. Monks January 2004; W 1324 bt S.H. Monks June 2003


657


SOHO, Jack’s [John Roberts] Coffee House, copper Sixpences (2, different, one with stop after 6), revs. RODNEY 12TH APRIL 1782, 5.19g (W 1621), 6.06g (W 1622, this piece illustrated), copper Threepence, similar, stop after 3, 3.34g (W 1623) [3]. Last about fine, others fine and better, second with punch-mark


£40-£50


Provenance: W 1621 DNW Auction DC6, 8 March 2010, lot 186 (part); W 1622 bt H. Simmons October 2005; W 1623 bt June 2014. Jack’s coffee house, Dean street, named after its first proprietor, John Roberts (fl. 1723-45), a Shakespearean actor at Drury Lane theatre


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