British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

LONDON, Haymarket, Her Majesty’s Theatre, a pair of ivory tickets, 1860, named (William Pain, Box 24, 1; Alice Pain, Box 24, 2), both 35mm, 6.34g, 5.90g (D & W 30/324ff; MG 134-6) [2]. Very fine and very rare as a pair; with original dark blue ribands £350-450

One side of each illustrated. It is thought the recipient, William Pain (1836/7-1903), was the same individual who, with Charles Lee (1803/4-80) and his son, Charles Williams Lee (†1901), were the three principals in Lee, Sons & Pain, architects, incorporated 1867, who designed the new Her Majesty’s Theatre, constructed in 1868 at a cost of £50,000 following the destruction of the second version of the theatre in a fire on 6 December 1867