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Theatre and Entertainment, TICKETS and PASSES, Theatre and Entertainment, STRAND, Gaiety Theatre, [1868+], brass, gaiety theatre, gallery in centre, rev. issued by longley’s patent, 31mm, 11.30g (W 789; D & W –). Central piercing as issued, about very fine £40-50

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 September 2008.

The Gaiety Theatre, originally the Strand Musick Hall established in 1864, was re-named in December 1868 and remained in business until 1939. James William Longley, Leeds, designer of the world’s first coin-operated ticket dispensing machines, 1885