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TICKETS AND PASSES OF LONDON FROM THE DAVID YOUNG COLLECTION (PART I)
TICKETS and PASSES, Theatre and Entertainment, EAST SMITHFIELD, Royalty Theatre, 1790, uniface copper, royalty theatre around first gallery, date below, back named (Mordecai Martin to A.M.), 36mm, 11.97g (W 407, this piece illustrated; D & W 35/374). Surface pitting in centre of obverse, otherwise good fine, very rare £100-150
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Provenance: Bt S.H. Monks October 2001.
The Royalty Theatre opened in 1787 and staged mostly burlesque reviews and pantomimes. By 1819 it was known as the East London Theatre, which burnt down in 1826
TICKETS and PASSES, Theatre and Entertainment, EAST SMITHFIELD, Royalty Theatre, 1790, uniface copper, royalty theatre around first gallery, date below, back named (Mordecai Martin to A.M.), 36mm, 11.97g (W 407, this piece illustrated; D & W 35/374). Surface pitting in centre of obverse, otherwise good fine, very rare £100-150
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Provenance: Bt S.H. Monks October 2001.
The Royalty Theatre opened in 1787 and staged mostly burlesque reviews and pantomimes. By 1819 it was known as the East London Theatre, which burnt down in 1826