Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Theatre and Entertainment, BARBICAN, New City Subscription Theatre, white card, Half Subscription Ticket to the Pit, signed Straker, 89 x 62mm; COVENT GARDEN, Covent Garden Theatre, Great League Meeting, green card, Wednesday Jan. 14, 1846, Boxes, 112 x 75mm; DRURY LANE, Theatre Royal, paper, Admit One to the Boxes, 10th March 1807, Play of Curfew, signed by R. Peake Junr, 83 x 67mm; The Old Batchelor, paper, For the Benefit of Joe Miller, four guardsmen, 138 x 113mm [4]. About very fine; last two pasted onto backing paper £60-80

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 T. Millett June 2006; second bt April 2004; third bt March 2005; last bt T. Millett May 2006.

The meeting referred to on the second item is the Anti-Corn Law League, which met monthly at the Covent Garden Theatre from September 1843 until the duty was abolished in June 1846