Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection

Theatre and Entertainment, WHITECHAPEL, Royalty Theatre, 1790, uniface copper, royalty theatre and date around pit, 37mm, 11.55g (W 408, and p.56, this piece illustrated; D & W –). Good fine, dark patina, scarce £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 D. Pennock September 2008.

The Royalty Theatre, Wellclose square, was opened in 1787 by John Palmer and John Bannister; by 1819 it was known as The East London Theatre