British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

Theatre and Entertainment, 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

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection.

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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