Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection

Refreshment and Accommodation, SOHO, Jack’s [John Roberts] Coffee House, copper Sixpences (2, different, one with stop after 6), revs. rodney 12th april 1782, 5.19g (W 1621), 6.06g (W 1622, this piece illustrated), copper Threepence, similar, stop after 3, 3.34g (W 1623) [3]. Last about fine, others fine and better, second with punch-mark £40-£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: W 1621 DNW Auction DC6, 8 March 2010, lot 186 (part); W 1622 bt H. Simmons October 2005; W 1623 bt June 2014.

Jack’s coffee house, Dean street, named after its first proprietor, John Roberts (fl. 1723-45), a Shakespearean actor at Drury Lane theatre