British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

Theatre and Entertainment, HACKNEY, Grecian Theatre, uniface brass, grecian theatre b.o. conquest around pit, 41mm, 18.44g (W 247, this piece illustrated; D & W 24/263). Good fine, very rare £70-£90

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: Bt S.H. Monks November 2000.

The Eagle Tavern, Shepherdess walk, City road, was rebuilt by Thomas Rouse in 1827 to include the Grecian Saloon. Subsequent alterations were made by Benjamin Oliver Conquest during his tenancy, 1852-72, and that of his son, George Oliver Conquest, 1873-9