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Theatre and Entertainment, TICKETS and PASSES, Theatre and Entertainment, HAYMARKET, King’s Theatre, Second Theatre, 1791, ivory, king’s theatre haymarket above date, rev. named (Sr I. Morshead, No. 102), 37mm, 4.47g (W 306, this piece illustrated; D & W –). Very fine and very rare £400-500

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: Tim Millett FPL 2006 (104).

Sir John Morshead, 1st Bt (1747-1813), Trenant Park, Cornwall; Lord Warden of The Stanneries, 1798-1801 and colonel of the Royal Cornwall & Devon Miners, 1798-1802; MP for Callington 1780-4 and Bodmin 1784-1802; died at his residence in Douglas, I.o.M., April 1813.

Originally built as the Queen’s Theatre by Sir John Vanbrugh in 1705, the theatre was renamed for the King in 1714 and became Her Majesty’s Theatre in 1837. Established as a regular opera house under Handel, it burnt down in 1789 but reopened in 1791. A further fire in 1867 led to a second shutdown and it was not reopened until 1877; the original was demolished in 1896

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