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Theatre and Entertainment, TICKETS and PASSES, Theatre and Entertainment, WHITECHAPEL, Goodman’s Fields New Theatre, copper, frontal elevation of a building, new theatre goodmans fields, rev. pit, floral ornaments above and below, 33mm, 14.69g (W 251; D & W 24/266). Good fine, very rare
£200-260

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 July 2001.

The original Goodman’s Fields playhouse dated to 1727; it was re-opened as a theatre in 1740 but was demolished in 1746. A new theatre was built to stage drama but was later converted into a warehouse