Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection


690


ISLINGTON, Alexandra Theatre, brass, ALEXANDRA THEATRE around cruciform ornament of lis and corn-ears, rev. similar ornament, 38mm, 14.30g (W 77, this piece illustrated; D & W 9/91). About very fine, very rare Provenance: Bt S.H. Monks November 2002.


£90-£120


The Alexandra Theatre was reconstructed on the site of Highbury Barn, proprietor Edward Giovanelli, and opened in May 1865. Giovanelli, a former clown from Surrey who has been compared to a modern-day Ben Elton, quickly acquired a reputation for engaging bawdy actors and actresses. Local opposition to the venture resulted in the licence being revoked in 1869 and it closed in 1871


691


31mm, 9.80g (W 1037, this piece illustrated; cf. D & W 63/145). Very fine and toned, rare; pierced for suspension


Provenance: Bt L. McCarthy November 2002 KENSINGTON, Royal Albert Hall, silver, ROYAL ALBERT HALL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES OPENED 1871, rev. BOX FIRST TIER, stamped 33 V,


£70-£90


692


OXFORD STREET, The Pantheon, 1772, silver, frontal elevation of the Pantheon, rev. NO. 23 PANTHEON in wreath above date, 34mm, 18.17g (W 375, this piece listed; D & W 33/349; Young, Entertainments, p.13, this piece). Toning spot on reverse, otherwise about extremely fine and toned, very rare


£300-£400


Provenance: A.P. Adams Collection, Part III, Glendining Auction, 21 March 1990, lot 188a (part); W.J. Noble Collection, Part II, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 61B (Melbourne), 3-4 August 1999, lot 735 (part).


Opened in 1772, the Pantheon, or Winter Ranelagh, became a fashionable concert venue in the 1780s and was equipped as an opera house in 1789, but was destroyed by fire in 1792. Rebuilt in 1795, it was converted into a theatre in 1812, but closed in 1814. Today the site is occupied by Marks & Spencer


693


ST JAMES’S, Almack’s Rooms, an engraved admission card by F. Bartolozzi after G.B. Cipriani, For the Benefit of Mr Giardini, a Concert of Vocal & Instrumental Musick, back inscribed (March the 26th 1767, at Almacks Great Room), 135 x 108mm. Very fine


£40-£50 Provenance: Tim Millett FPL June 2006 (58); bt T. Millett June 2012.


Almack’s, founded by a former valet and tavern keeper William Almack (†1781) as a licensed coffee house in Curzon street in 1754, moved to 49 Pall Mall in 1759. It was formally established as a private members’ club in January 1762. Felice Giardini (1716-96), Italian composer and violinist. During the 1750s Giardini toured Europe, meeting with successes in Paris, Berlin and especially in England, where he eventually settled at Bramham, near Leeds. For many years he served as orchestra leader and director of the Italian Opera in London


694


Provenance: Bt T. Millett March 2007 Uncertain location, bracteate brass, PIT, 31mm, 4.64g (W 530, this piece illustrated). Very fine


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