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Auction: 14017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 523

Palace Theatre Ltd., £1 preference shares, fully paid, 189[3], no.1049, signed by George de Reuter as director, vignette of the theatre at top, black on pink paper, very fine and scarce.

The theatre was commissioned by D'Oyly Carte and was opened in 1891 as the Royal English Opera House. It still stands, much unaltered and dominates Cambridge Circus in central London. Sold to this company in 1893 as a Variety Theatre and also screened films from 1897. Had a succession of owners including, more recently, Andrew Lloyd Webber , since 1983. Les Miserables was performed there from 1985 to 2004. Lloyd Webber sold to Nimax Theatres in 2012.

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