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Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection

David Young

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№ 659

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27 August 2020

Hammer Price:
£30

Theatre and Entertainment, ALDWYCH, Aldwych Theatre, uniface iron, stamped aldwych theatre around tons of money, 27mm, 1.30g (W 923); DRURY LANE, Theatre Royal, Fourth Theatre, 1888, brass, augustus harris company every evening around 1888 the armada 1588, rev. great drury lane drama, two ships and rowing boat, 25mm, 5.68g (W 238; Young, Theatres & Circus, p.34, this piece); LAMBETH, Ideal Cinema, 1928, brass, façade of building, rev. the ideal penny, this is worth a penny at the pay-box only one may be used for each seat, 32mm, 9.42g (W 905, this piece illustrated); SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, Shaftesbury Theatre, uniface iron (2), both stamped the shaftesbury theatre around tons of money, 32mm, 1.76g (W 924, this piece illustrated), 19mm, 0.65g (W –); STRAND, Tivoli Theatre, brass (2, different), the trail of ‘98 above tivoli, revs. keep this it may be lucky see daily sketch, no.1511, 14578, both 26mm, both 5.33g; no location stated, uniface iron (2), both stamped don’t fail to see tons of money, 27 and 19mm, 1.37g, 0.73g (W –) [9]. Third good very fine, others fine to very fine, second pierced for suspension £50-£70

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: First bt H. Simmons January 2013; second bt April 2011; third bt D. Pennock March 2007; fourth bt S.H. Monks January 2003; fifth bt R. Wells March 2005; sixth and seventh bt H. Simmons October 2005; eighth bt June 2015; last bt J.G. Scott February 2013.

Tons of Money, a farce by Will Evans and Arthur Valentine, was first performed at the Shaftesbury Theatre in April 1922, transferring to the Aldwych in 1924. The Trail of ‘98, an MGM epic about the Klondike gold rush, premiered in 1928