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Theatre and Entertainment, TICKETS and PASSES, Theatre and Entertainment, LEICESTER SQUARE, Royal Alhambra Palace, oval zinc, royal alambra palace around balcony, rev. stalls in cartouche, stamped 669, 46 x 34mm, 18.45g (W 509, this piece illustrated; D & W –). About very fine, rare £80-100

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 L. McCarthy November 2002.

The Royal Alhambra Palace, located on the site of what is now The Odeon, Leicester square, opened as a music hall in 1858 and was later licensed as a theatre. Prior to 1858 the building hosted the Royal Panopticon of Science and Art. It was demolished in 1936