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Theatre Handbill

Theatre Handbill

Description

A handbill for the Savoy Theatre in London advertising the musical “The Emerald Isle” with its original envelope posted 17 July 1901. This has almost certainly been sent privately, and not by the theatre. It would have been a very expensive way of advertising and in any case it could have been sent at ˝d as printed paper, rather than as it has been at the letter rate of 1d.