Opening Party ticket, Fox’s Hall South Worcester, N.Y.

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A Victorian-era ticket with a unique border and striking typefaces. The star of the show is Bank-Note Italic, a variant of John F. Cumming’s Bank-Note Italic (c.1863) in which the top halves have diagonal hatching. Charles E. Heyer added it to the catalog of the Boston Type Foundry in 1875. 

Opening Party at Fox’s Hall, South Worcester, N.Y.
Thursday Evening, Dec. 15, 1887 Music by Belcher's Full Band.
Yourself and lady are respectively invited.
Bill $1.50
J. D. Beard, Manager. E. Fox, Prop’r.

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