The Green Man, Marylebone

FARTHING PIE HOUSE, Marylebone, now "the Green Man," was kept by Price, a famous player on the salt-box. Of this Price there is a mezzotinto print. Farthing Pie-Houses were not uncommon in the environs of London in the reign of George II.

source: Hand-Book of London Past and Present,
Peter Cunningham, F.S.A.
John Murray, London 1850.

This is a fascinating entry which teases with the idea of a print lying undiscovered somewhere around London (hopefully). And if anyone can tell tales of the "salt-box" then that too would be fascinating.

And later on, due reference was found! From "Notes and Queeries" August 20th, 1932.




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