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Grand prize of £40,000!

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Handbill with details of the lottery and the supplementary draw.

  • Title: Grand prize of £40,000! Not two blanks to a prize, and double chances for the same money. : Lottery, on a new plan, begins drawing October 20, 1807.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [1807]

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File 66 807 G751

Acquired March 2024

Lottery puffs with Twelfth Night characters

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Twenty-four letterpress and engraved lottery puffs uncut on one sheet. Each puff includes engravings of Twelfth night character by George Cruikshank and an 8-line poem.

 

  • Creator: J. & J. Sivewright (Firm)
  • Title: Lottery puffs with Twelfth Night characters engraved by George Cruikshank.
  • Publication: [London] : J. & J. Sivewright … 37, Cornhill, 11, Holburn, 38 Haymarket, 141, Oxford-St, [December 1819?]

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Drawer 819.12.00.02

Acquired March 2024

All in one day, 4 £20,000, Octr. 5th

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Woodcut illustration of a hot air balloon with two flag-waving gentlemen seated in the basket. The flag to the left reads “No blanks”; the flag to the right, “All money.”

  • Title: All in one day, 4 £20,000, Octr. 5th … : a great variety of numbers are selling by Hazard & Co., the contractors, 93, Royal Exchange; 26 Cornhill; 324 Oxford-St., who sold three £20,000 last lottery.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [ca. 1825]

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File 66 825 Al416

Acquired September 2021