The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes

Public Lounge, Holborn, otherwise known as Tulleys Lounge, a skit note promising to allow entry for 1 Shilling, or forfeit £1000, ND (1834), serial numbers 95 and 96, and detailing the attractions as being a Euterpeon (automatic music machine), an evening concert, and a Cosmoramic Corridor (a series of enormous, usually coloured, images of cityscapes or faraway places), with a printed signature of James Tulley, two mounting hinges at in upper margin on reverse, otherwise good fine and rare
4045 for similar £150-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes.

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James Tulley appears to have been something of a rogue who consistently appears in newspaper and court records from the mid 1830s until the late 1850s, generally as an employee or proprietor of lower class entertainment venues and music halls. He appears to have gone bankrupt on at least two occasions. Contemporary reviews of the establishment listed, which was located on either on Lambs Conduit Street or High Holborn, were somewhat mixed!