Lot 504

Description

Refreshment tickets, coffee houses etc, all for 1 penny British Public House Co., Limited, Edinburgh and Leith (26mm) (2); London & Provincial Coffee Palace Company Limited (29mm) (2), Kensington Coffee Tavern (3, two with milled edge); Stockton on Tees Coffee Palace Co, Ashton under Lyme Coffee and Cocoa Tavern Co. (Limited) (illustrated) Shrewsbury Cocoa Rooms (illustrated); Greenwich People's Cafe Company Limited; Alnwick Cocoa Rooms (illustrated); Lockharts Cocoa Rooms; Exeter Coffee Tavern Company's Houses (illustrated); Tiverton Coffee House Company Limited (illustrated); Doncaster Public Cocoa and Coffee House (illustrated); Ormskirk (Lancashire) Working Mens Institute & Coffee & Cocoa Rooms; Ramsgate & St. Lawrence Coffee Tavern Company Limited (25mm); Northampton People's Cafe Company Limited (25mm) (illustrated); Broughton Coffee Tavern Company Limited, Manchester (32 x 26mm); Coffee Public Houses National Society Limited (2 one mint state) (illustrated); Royal Arms Coffee Tavern Guildford (25mm) (illustrated); Leamington Coffee Tavern Limited; Cocoa Rooms Liverpool (2); Dodds Cocoa Rooms, 32 High Street Wrexham, oval (32 x 25mm) (illustrated), Plymouth Coffee House Co. Limited (3) (illustrated); Bon Street Coffee House Scarborough (by Heaton) (25mm) illustrated; Commercial Coffee Palace Exmouth, pierced at top (25mm) illustrated; Globe Coffee Tavern Teignmouth (illustrated) Folkstone Coffee & Refreshment House Cy. Ld.; Birmingham Coffee House & Co. Limited in cupro-nickel (25mm) (2); The Edinburgh Castle Tontine Street 3d (a pub check) reverse similar to penny worth but three penny worth (27mm). A good range of this uniform series mostly very fine-uncirculated. (37)

The Shrewsbury from Seaby in 1975, eleven from Schwer in 1984, fourth from L. Bennett, Ormskirk and Greenwich from Baldwin in 1992, Liverpool from A. Dowle in 1975, Kensington from Spink in 1975, others from Baldwin in 1987-9.