Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection

Theatre and Entertainment, COVENTRY STREET, Prince’s Theatre, uniface copper or brass, upper to lower on raised border, central label missing, 31mm, 10.10g (W 390); DRURY LANE, Theatre Royal, Third and Fourth Theatres, uniface copper, drury lane theatre around pit, back engraved 910, 30mm, 8.50g (W 213; D & W 20/226); 1888, brass (2), drury lane theatre every evening around 1888 the armada 1588, rev. augustus harris lessee & manager, two ships and rowing boat, edge grained, 25mm, 5.38g (W 237 (i)), augustus harris company every evening around 1888 the armada 1588, rev. great drury lane drama, two ships and rowing boat, edge grained, 25mm, 5.85g (W 238) [4]. Second fine, others about very fine and better; last two pierced £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: First bt August 2014; second bt August 2011; third bt L. McCarthy November 2002; last bt R. Wells March 2005