British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

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