Auction Catalogue
Theatre and Entertainment, HAMPSTEAD, Hampstead Wells Ballroom, copper, frontal elevation of a building, engraved 63 below hampstead in exergue, rev. this admits two ladys into the ball room around Henry Vipont monogram, 35mm, 18.46g (W 1065, this piece illustrated; D & W 74/211; Young, Entertainments, p.21, this piece). Die flaw across obverse, very fine and extremely rare; pierced for suspension £240-£300
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: W.J. Noble Collection, Part II, Noble Numismatics Pty Auction 61B (Melbourne), 3-4 August 1999, lot 792 [from Baldwin 1989].
The popularity of the Hampstead Wells, opened in the late 17th century, was superseded by the first ballroom, opened in 1701. It was converted into a chapel in 1733 and new rooms opened later by Henry Vipont (†1753), a local vintner; they closed in 1802. These copper tickets cost a guinea for the season
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