British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes

LONDON, Shoreditch, Standard Theatre, copper, standard theatre, rev. douglas shoreditch, 38mm (W 416, and p.57, this piece illustrated; D & W 35/378). Good fine, scarce £60-£80

DNW Auction T4, 13 December 2006, lot 1359; D. Young Collection, DNW Auction 147, 12-14 June 2018, lot 1764

The Standard Theatre, opened in 1837, was sold to John Douglas in 1849; he was succeeded in the business by his sons. The building was bombed to destruction in World War II.