Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection

Theatre and Entertainment, CLERKENWELL, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, copper, sadler’s wells theatre around gallery, rev. issued by longley’s patent, 32mm, 8.10g (W 413; D & W 35/377). Obverse scratched, otherwise good fine £40-60

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 R. Gladdle February 2005.

The original Sadler’s Wells theatre, named after Richard Sadler, Charles II’s surveyor of highways and the owner of a medicinal well discovered in 1683, opened in 1740. It was replaced by a stone building in 1766