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№ 600

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24 January 2023

Hammer Price:
£80

LONDON, Covent Garden, Theatre Royal, Second Theatre, O.P. [Old Price] Riots, 1809, white metal, unsigned [perhaps by P. Wyon], John Bull on an ass left, holding whips inscribed old price’s and open boxes, the animal with the head of John Philip Kemble, rev. p within o in centre, laurel, rattle and trumpet around, 43mm, 30.68g (W 168; D & W 17/185; BHM 675; E 1005). Attempted piercing below ass and a small area of tin pest on rim, otherwise good very fine £50-£70

A Group of Theatre Passes, SNC February 2004 (TT 2855)