TICKETS AND PASSES OF LONDON FROM THE DAVID YOUNG COLLECTION (PART I)
TICKETS and PASSES, Theatre and Entertainment, LEICESTER SQUARE, Royal Alhambra Palace, oval zinc, royal alambra palace around balcony, rev. stalls in cartouche, stamped 669, 46 x 34mm, 18.45g (W 509, this piece illustrated; D & W –). About very fine, rare £80-100
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Provenance: Bt L. McCarthy November 2002.
The Royal Alhambra Palace, located on the site of what is now The Odeon, Leicester square, opened as a music hall in 1858 and was later licensed as a theatre. Prior to 1858 the building hosted the Royal Panopticon of Science and Art. It was demolished in 1936