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Theatre and Entertainment, 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

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: 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