Lot 739

Description

Theatrical advertising tickets, Augustus Harris Company Every Evening The Armada 1888/1588 above and below/Great Drury Lane Drama, in brass (25mm) another with Armada battle scene on obverse (M.G.74). Wyndham's Theatre/The Ringer, in brass (27mm) (3) (illustrated), 'Jelfs', Gerald du Maurier in brass and copper (22mm) (illustrated) (3 different dies) The Bank of England There's Money In It Chas. H. Lester as Sherlock Holmes/The Sorrows of Satan (illustrated), another with Satan/Baby Defective dies, another with Baby Detective/Frontier Queen dies all in brass (24mm). Miss Winifred Maude's Company/The Sins of a City in brass (24mm) (illustrated). Prince of Wales Theatre, Golden Parisien Revue in brass (28mm) (2); From Duke of York's Theatre London/Merely Mary Ann, in aluminium (24mm) edge milled; The Plaza Piccadilly Circ. 'Farewell Again', London Greets You for the Coronation May 1937 in aluminium (29mm) (illustrated). Coventry, To Commemorate the Revival of the Lady Godiva in brass (30mm) undated but circa 1860 (illustrated). 1898 shilling engraved on reverse 'The/Naughty/Half'. Fine-extremely fine. (18)

Mostly from Schwer in 1984, the illustrated Armada ex S.V. Hagley Collection.