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Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection

David Young

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№ 655

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27 August 2020

Hammer Price:
£140

Refreshment and Accommodation, FLEET STREET, Rainbow Coffee House, uniface copper, rainbow coffee house, centre stamped 1, back stamped 2, 25mm, 7.08g (W 2443, this piece). Obverse rim knock at 2 o’clock, otherwise very fine and 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: F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Spink February 1931]; bt Spink October 2008.

The Rainbow coffee house, 15 Fleet street, better known as Farr’s after its founder, the barber-surgeon and token-issuer Joseph Farr, opened in 1656/7. By the time of the appearance of this ticket,
c. 1780, the house was under the proprietorship of Alexander Moncrieff