Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection

Refreshment and Accommodation, COVENT GARDEN, Low’s Hotel, 1774, silver, by J. Kirk, frontal elevation of building, low’s grand hotel covent garden london and date around, rev. for the reception of noblemen and gentlemen within wreath, edge plain, 34mm, 13.07g (W 2435; D & W 77/227). Some staining on rims, otherwise very fine, reverse better, extremely rare in silver £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: Bt S.H. Monks February 2005.

Low’s Grand Hotel, 43 King street, proprietor David Low, opened in January 1774; Low became a chiropodist and the owner by 1793 was Charles Richardson (†May 1827; see next Lot). By the early 1850s it had passed into the hands of John ‘Paddy’ Green, who added a new music hall; the acts eventually outgrew the facility, which closed in 1880