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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 modern mounting hinges at left, otherwise in exceptional condition considering its very fragile paper, good fine and extremely rare
Outing unlisted £150-£200

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!