Description
Good very fine with replacement ribbon
but because of the padding used in the cases
Very fine + with a bold portrait
Maker mark G13 to rear
The star is impressed to 8309 Pte C WILKS
London/Covent garden. Old Price Riots. 1809 medal/token #sherborne Good very fine with replacementLondon, Covent Garden Theatre, Old Price medal 1809, brass, bust of Kemble left wearing a fools cap, OH MY HEAD AITCHES above, OBSTINACY below, rev. O. P. (Old Price) in field, JOHN BULLS JUBILEE, CLIFFORD FOR EVER around, 24mm. Pierced very fine. Note: the raising of prices by theatre actor manager John Kemble caused three months of rioting at the end of 1809.