Tag Archives: Lotteries

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

To be drawn in Guildhall, in one day

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Printed handbill; woodcut illustration of ‘The Grand Hotel’ positioned in the center, with letterpress text above and below.
On verso: half page woodcut illustration of a hay-maker in front of a grand house; below, advertising poem for the lottery, entitled ‘The Hay-Maker.’

  • Title: To be drawn in Guildhall, in one day, Tuesday the 26th this month, the Grand City of London Lottery for Freehold Houses : discharged of Land-Tax, and valued at upwards of £100,000 in capital prizes.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [1808]

Catalog Record

File 66 808 T627

Acquired March 2024

 

Bowyer’s History of England Lottery

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  • Author: Bowyer, Robert, 1758-1834.
  • Title: Bowyer’s History of England Lottery. : Price of the tickets three guineas each; which are now selling at the Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, and at Mr. Bowter’s office for the city, no. 73, Cornhill …
  • Publication: [London] : [Robert Bowyer], [1807?]
  • Copyright notice date: [London] : T. Bensley, printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street

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File 66 807 B786+

Acquired July 2023

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]

Catalog Record

File 66 825 Al416

Acquired September 2021

Tomkin’s Picture Lottery

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  • Author: Tomkin’s Picture Lottery.
  • Title: Tomkin’s Picture Lottery. : One half of the tickets are printed in black, and the other half in red ink; and the drawing is so arranged, that one colour must be all prizes, and the other collour all blanks; so that the purchaser of a red ticket and a black ticket is sure to gain a prize. Tickets three guineas each, to be had at the exhibition, Nos. 53 and 54, New Bond-Street, (where the prizes are exhibited gratis,) and at all the lottery offices. Schedule of the prizes. …
  • Publication: [London, England] : [publisher not identified], [1821]

Catalog Record

File 66 821 T658

Acquired October 2019