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Metropolitan Railway Drill & Shooting Corps, in bronze, (32mm), by Toye, Kenning & Spencer. Traces of red, uncirculated and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Bath Theatre, Pit, another but for box/second price, another but for Gallery (Withers 3, 4, 2). Good very fine. (3)
Estimate $450
SOLD $360
Bristol, King Street Theatre, Admit 'Mr. Cooper' in silver (39mm) (Withers unlisted). Toned, good very fine and rare.
Estimate $500
SOLD $750
Dublin, Crow Street (Theatre) 1790 in brass (34mm) Box (Withers 28) 148 engraved on the reverse. Some corrosion, otherwise fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
Liverpool Theatre, in copper (35mm) Box (Withers 55). Very good.
Estimate $50
Passed in
Theatre Royal (Liverpool) in bracteate tin plate (43mm) Box (8), Pit (29 and 37) (Withers 66, 68 (2)). Good very fine. (3)
Estimate $450
Passed in
Royal Coburg Theatre, RCT Pit 2 in copper (31mm) (Withers 91). Very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Covent Garden Theatre, First Theatre 1733-1808, Duke of Cumberland, Box in gilt copper (33mm) (Withers 97) by T. Pingo. Nearly very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $320
New Theatre, Covent Garden, 1809 rev. P in copper (29mm) (Withers 140) (with Spink envelope); with K (Withers 141); St. George's Hall Liverpool in copper (30mm) (Withers 747); Queen's Theatre Manchester in copper (30mm) (Withers 462); Music Hall, Manchester, Benjamin Lang (Withers 794, another 797); William Henry Betty, 1804 medalet. Fine - good very fine. (7)
Estimate $150
SOLD $200
Covent Garden Theatre, in ivory (41mm) 1799 rev. 'Proprietor's/Ticket/Box/180' (cf Withers 155). Nearly very fine and very rare.
Estimate $500
SOLD $500
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Charles II and Catherine, 'For the/First Gallerie/1684' in copper (31mm) (Withers 182). Choice extremely fine and very rare as such.
Estimate $500
SOLD $1,000
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, First Gallery, 1776, in copper (40mm) stamped 165 (Withers 191). Very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $280
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 4th Theatre Upper Gallery in copper (31mm) (Withers 215). Uneven (overstrike), good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $160
Theatre Royal Haymarket, Pit 1778, another Second Gallery 1778 (Withers 253, 258) in copper (36mm). Good very fine. (2)
Estimate $200
SOLD $340
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Proprietor's silver ticket, Free Admission, No. 11 James Thomas, oval, pierced at top (57x43mm) (Withers unlisted). Toned, very fine and very rare.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $2,400
King's Theatre, Opera ivory tickets, all round (39mm) 1831, Lady Ridley rev. '1831/Box 102/6'; another rev. '1813/Pitbox 6/5'; another rev. 'Box 11/6'; first two like Withers 326, last with 1831 over Opera on obverse. Pierced as always, very fine. (3)
Estimate $750
SOLD $800
Her Majesty's Theatre and Opera House, ivory tickets, T.G. Pole, 1842 rev. 'T. Davis Esqr./Pit/Pitbox 3/5' (40mm) (cf Withers 332); square cut corners (37mm) 1845 rev. ' Mr Bradon Trewlawney/Box 15/5' (Withers 334); 1846 rev. 'LCH/Pit/Stagebox 7/4' (Withers 335); 1847 (square cut corners 37x36mm) rev. 'Mrs. Tudor/Pitbox 3/5' (Withers 336). All pierced at top for suspension, very fine or better. (4)
Estimate $1,200
SOLD $1,000
Her Majesty's Theatre and Opera House, ivory tickets in oval shape (50x38mm), 1840 rev. 'H. Grosett Esq./Tuesday/Stall 208'; 1842 T.G. Pole oblong with rounded ends rev. 'Mifs E. Bryan/Pitbox 16/1' (cf Withers 333 and 332), another similar oblong (50x29mm) 1847 rev. 'Mrs. Sandford/Saturday/Box 16/4'. Pierced as usual, very fine or better and rare. (3)
Estimate $1,200
SOLD $1,000
Her Majesty's Theatre and Opera House, ivory tickets, 1850 (37x36mm) rev. 'E. Bligh Esqr./Tuesday/Stall 10' (cf Withers 339); 1851 (35mm) rev. 'Captn Meynell/Pitbox 32/3' (cf Withers 340); 1856 (35mm) rev. 'G. Macdonald Esq./Stall 122' (Withers 340). Pierced for wear, very fine. (3)
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $800
Her Majesty's Theatre and Opera House, ivory tickets, all oval (50x35mm), 1851 rev. 'J.L. Zulwela Esq./Thursday/Stall 136'; another rev. 'Wm Wells Esq./Tuesday and Thursday/Pitbox R/4'; 1856 rev. 'Mrs. Phillips/Box 69 1/2 /5' (cf Withers 340, 1, 3). Good very fine. (3)
Estimate $1,200
SOLD $800
Lyceum, Strand, London, halfpennies (undated, c.1795) (D&H 362a, b). Extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $80
Passed in
Lyceum Theatre, Theatre Royal English Opera House T.R.E.O.H. pit, square in copper (38mm) (Withers 360). Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Lyceum Theatre, Royal Opera, ticket in ivory (56x43mm) Box 4, Morning 1878, 'The/Baroness Burdett Coutts' (not listed in Withers). Two holes for suspension, nearly extremely fine and very rare.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $800
Prince of Wales Theatre, Pit in brass (30mm) (Withers 392). Nearly very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Royal Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel Box in copper (31mm) (Withers 404). Very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Theatre Royal Gallery, in white metal (38mm) (Withers 466). Nearly extremely fine/extremely fine.
Estimate $250
SOLD $150
Northampton Theatre, 1805, in silver (38mm) (Withers 471). Good extremely fine.
Estimate $350
SOLD $300
Windsor Theatre, Free Admission token on Charles II, fourth bust, halfcrown c.1680's, reverse smoothed and engraved "WINDSOR THEATRE FREE ADMISSION TO THE SHAREHOLDER OF NOS 25.82.100 I.W.". Holed, very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $160
Mary Dunn, Bermondsey Hotel in brass (32mm) (Withers 645); Day's Crystal Palace Concert Hall in brass (32mm) (Withers 580); Rodney Inn Concert Hall in brass (32mm) (Withers 608); Circus, Bannister Travelling Circus in brass (30mm) (Withers 954); Longley's Patent in brass (33mm); general use issue, uniface (cf Withers 780 uniface with larger central hole) brass (31mm); also Society Theatre, Manchester, Charles Chaplin in the Gold Rush in brass (27mm) 1926. Fourth very good, others very fine or better. (6)
Estimate $240
Passed in
Welch & Co., Hippodrome (Birmingham Circus) Pit in brass (32mm) (Withers 980). Very fine.
Estimate $60
Passed in