Auction Catalogue

30 June 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Important British and World Coins, Tokens, Historial and Art Medals, Numismatic Books and Banknotes

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1366

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30 June 2004

Hammer Price:
£390

Exhibitions, London, Madame Tussaud & Sons Exhibition, copper tickets (2), Sixpence, stamped 42, and no value, rev. london, both 37mm (D & W 83/266, 83/268; MG 892, –); Vauxhall Gardens, Spanish Fête, 1828, a copper ticket, lyre, rev. legend in wreath, 32mm (D & W 88/320; MG 688); Marylebone Music Hall, R.F. Bottling, brass ticket for 12 Pence by W.J. Taylor, 28mm (D & W –; cf. MG 599); Strand Music Hall, a copper ticket for Threepence, 24mm (D & W –; MG 607); other miscellaneous tickets, checks, etc (19, one in silver), of Shakespeare, Garrick, etc [24]. Many very fine, some scarce (£120-150)

Provenance:
Second bt Seaby 1980
Third
SCMB August 1982 (N 146)
Fourth, fifth and several others R.N.P. Hawkins Collection, Glendining Auction, 16 March 1988, lot 311 (part).

The Spanish Fête was staged on 8 July 1828 for the benefit of foreign refugees; R.F. Bottling was manager of the Marylebone Music Hall, High street, Marylebone, 1861-94; the Strand Music Hall was erected between 1864 and 1866 on the site then taken by the first Gaiety Theatre