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