British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

Tickets and Passes, Co DUBLIN, Dublin, Private Theatre [1796], silver, by W. Mossop, robed figures of Tragedy, Comedy and Lyric supporting scroll, rev. named (1, Hon. L. Taylor), 35mm, 15.67g (W 34; D & W 5/40; Gilbert 14; Frazer p.451; cf. T. Millett FPL 2007, 78; cf. Baldwin FPL 1995, 274). Two rim knocks on obverse at 6 o’clock, otherwise good very fine and toned, rare £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Irish Tokens, Tickets and Passes, the Property of a Gentleman.

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Provenance: J. Spencer Collection, DNW Auction M5, 17 December 2007, lot 1079.

Dissatisfaction among certain of the nobility and gentry in Dublin with the way affairs were being conducted at the city’s Theatre Royal led to the establishment in 1796 of a Private Theatre at Fishamble street, under the management of the Earl of Westmeath and Frederick Jones, a theatre promoter and gentleman of independent means from Vesington, co Meath. Each subscriber was allowed two silver tickets and could, if qualified, take a part in the performance (Gilbert, appendix VII, p.xv). Sold with much further background information