Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection

Refreshment and Accommodation, COVENT GARDEN, Low’s Hotel, 1774, copper, by J. Kirk, frontal elevation of building, low’s grand hotel covent garden london and date around, rev. for the reception of noblemen and gentlemen within wreath, edge plain, 34mm, 13.62g (W 2435; D & W 77/225). Reverse edge knock, otherwise about very fine £30-40

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: Bt J. Whitmore October 1973.

Low’s Grand Hotel, 43 King street, proprietor David Low, opened in January 1774; Low became a chiropodist and the owner by 1793 was Charles Richardson (†May 1827)