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№ 1202

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15 June 2017

Hammer Price:
£80

Theatre and Entertainment, TICKETS and PASSES, Theatre and Entertainment, STEPNEY, Royal Pavilion Theatre, cast brass, royal pavilion theatre around b[ox], rev. j, 38mm, 17.74g (W 402; MG 325). Fine, very rare £100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection.

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Provenance: F.W. Yeates Collection; F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Baldwin August 1923]; bt Spink October 2008.

The Royal Pavilion Theatre, in Whitechapel road, opened in 1828. It was destroyed by fire in 1856 but had reopened by 1858 and became one of the most popular East End playhouses. By the turn of the 20th century it was catering largely to the local Jewish population and it closed in 1935