Coins, Tokens, Historical Medals, Paper Money and Numismatic Books

Theatre and Entertainment, TICKETS and PASSES, Theatre and Entertainment, CLERKENWELL, Spa Fields Chapel, 1830, green line engraved card, mural crown above panel with sh monogram, gallery below, ‘Christ[ma]s 1830’ inked above, back with notation in ink ‘Seatholder’s ticket…initials S.H. (Selina Huntingdon) in the centre’, later pencilled annotation ‘Chapel was in Exmouth St…’ above, 90 x 61mm. Very fine and very rare £100-150

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 Valerie Harris June 2008.

Spa Fields Chapel, formerly the Pantheon, was appropriated as a place of worship by Selina, Countess of Huntingdon (1707-91). Described as ‘a plain brick building with a high domical roof and lantern’, capable of accommodating up to 2,000 people, it was demolished in 1879