Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection

Clubs and Societies, BLOOMSBURY, John Street Institution, brass, legend around H, rev. blank, 31mm, 9.72g (W 1928). About very fine, scarce £30-£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: Bt H. Simmons November 2018.

The John Street Institute was founded by the socialist Robert Owen in 1840 in a building formerly located in what is now Whitfield street. Used for many meetings by the Chartist movement in the late 1840s, it was later a venue for the performing arts