The History of Ticket Stubs

The first known tickets were used in the Greek period for events that primarily took place in theatres. Fast forward to the 1860's and you see great advancement in technology. Tickets were issued for everything. Gradually stubs became adorned with ornate borders. By the 1940's, baseball teams were getting inventive. During the next century, the Indianapolis 500 was churning out great ephemera... Modern tickets now make use of augmented reality. This 2011 NBA Finals ticket launches a game app when scanned with smart phones... Of course all stubs aren't the prettiest to look at... Concert stubs are highly sought by collectors. Mid-century college football bowl games made for great artwork... 1939. Atlanta Premiere of Gone With the Wind. These ticket stubs represent just a fraction of the 12,000 stubs found on TicketStubCollection.com. Now you can add to the collection - just scan and upload your stubs and join the stub collecting community. Some of the most
actively collected ticket stubs. At any given time there's over 22,000 auctions for ticket stubs on eBay. 1997, Bruce Springsteen, Warsaw's Sala Kongresova. Note handwritten row and seat info. Not tickets per se, but these tokens
got you in the game, generally a season's worth. http://www.ticketstubcollection.com/ Tickets to the Roman Colosseum - the Tessara Originally small disks of clay shards (pottery) were used to stamp seating details to be used as the tickets or tessara. The small disks were about the size of a cent. Small disks made of bone were also used for this purpose. Funerals were often announced - and guests determined - by issuing tickets. This is from the Duke of Wellington's London funeral
in 1852. Today, collectors commemorate their favorite events with sharp looking enlarged tickets from That's My Ticket or by sharing yarns on StubStory. An Illustrated History of Event Tickets and Artwork. Presented by: Flash Seating, an electronic means of issuing tickets, has recently taken a new look at getting fans in their seats.