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№ 597

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21 February 2024

Hammer Price:
£40

LONDON, St James’s, St James’s Theatre, uniface copper, the st james’s theatre around pit, stamped 237, 40mm, 19.37g (W 352, and p.48, this piece illustrated; D & W –). Good fine, rare £80-100

DNW Auction T4, 13 December 2006, lot 1358; D. Young Collection, DNW Auction 147, 12-14 June 2018, lot 1762

St James’s Theatre, built in 1835, played host to a panoply of great actors and actresses over a period of 120 years before it was closed in 1957.