Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection


668


COVENT GARDEN, Theatre Royal, Second Theatre, 1809, copper, NEW THEATRE COVENT GARDEN and date around BOX, rev. P [rince’s side], 29mm, 9.12g (W 140, this piece illustrated; D & W 12/127). Very fine, patinated


£70-£90


Provenance: W.J. Noble Collection, Part II, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 61B (Melbourne), 3-4 August 1999, lot 650 (part) [from S. E. Schwer 1984]; bt R. Gladdle November 2004


669 670 around P[it] P[rince’s] S[ide], 29mm, 11.99g (W 144; D & W 13/150). Fine, rare in this metal


Provenance: F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Lincoln April 1905]; bt S.H. Monks May 2007 COVENT GARDEN, Theatre Royal, Second Theatre, 1809, uniface white metal, NEW THEATRE COVENT GARDEN and date


£50-£70


[allery] K[ing’s] S[ide], rev. K, 29mm, 9.82g (W 145, this piece illustrated; D & W 14/154). Minor rim nicks, otherwise good fine


£50-£70 671


Provenance: Bt Baldwin May 1997 COVENT GARDEN, Theatre Royal, Second Theatre, 1809, copper, NEW THEATRE COVENT GARDEN and date around FIRST G


COVENT GARDEN, Theatre Royal, Second Theatre, O.P. [Old Price] Riots, 1809, in brass (2, second plated) and copper, draped bust of John Kemble wearing fool’s cap, trumpet and rattle below, OH MY HEAD AITCHES, etc, revs. O P, JOHN BULL’S JUBILEE, etc around, all 25mm, 4.69g, 4.55g, 4.93g (allW170; D &W17/188) [3]. Generally about very fine; brass specimens pierced for suspension


£30-£40 Provenance: First bt T. Millett May 2001; others DNW Auction T6, 19 March 2009, lot 662 (part)


672


COVENT GARDEN, Theatre Royal, Second Theatre, Retirement of John Kemble, 1817, a silver medal by J. Warwick, bust right, rev. THOU LAST OF ALL THE ROMANS, etc, edge impressed RETIRED FROM THE STAGE 23D JUNE 1817, named (Mr John Field), 41mm, 37.30g (W 559; D & W 139/299; BHM 1210 [recté 1817]). Trifling surface marks and rim nicks, otherwise extremely fine and dark-toned, very rare


£200-£300 Provenance: J. Spencer Collection, DNW Auction M11, 13 July 2011, lot 1021.


John Philip Kemble (1757-1823), second son of Roger Kemble and brother of the actress Sarah Siddons, first appeared on the stage in 1776. He made his debut at the Theatre Royal, Drury lane, in 1783, and by 1788 had become its player-manager, a post he held until 1802 when he resigned after a dispute with the theatre’s then owner, Richard Sheridan. In 1803 he became manager of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, in which he had acquired a sixth share for £23,000, but the infamous fire on 20 September 1808, and the raising of admission prices after the opening of the new theatre, in 1809, almost ruined him; he was only saved when the Duke of Northumberland came to his rescue with a generous loan of £10,000, later converted into a gift. Kemble took his final leave of the stage in the part of Coriolanus on 23 June 1817 and died in Lausanne


673


right, THEATRE ROYAL around, rev. FOR THE PIT above date, 35mm, 14.68g (W 181; Young, Theatres & Circus, p.17, this piece; D & W 18/195). Fair, rare


Provenance: Bt S.H. Monks July 2001 DRURY LANE, Theatre Royal, First Theatre, 1684, copper, conjoined busts of Charles II and Catherine of Braganza


£90-£120


674


stamped 14, 38mm, 18.49g (W 193, this piece listed; Young, Theatres & Circus, p.23, this piece; D &W19/209). About very fine, dark patina


£90-£120 www.dnw.co.uk all lots are illustrated on our website and are subject to buyers’ premium at 24% (+VAT where applicable)


Provenance: Bt S.H. Monks November 2002 DRURY LANE, Theatre Royal, Second Theatre, 1776, uniface copper, DRURY LANE and date around UPPER GALLY, back


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