Title: [Lottery Ticket]: For Sale. The Tiger. 1 Horse Valued at $200, 1 Trotting Buggy..
Publication: [No place: No publisher, no date - circa 1800?]
Description: Unbound. Small lottery ticket on stiff card decorated with vignette of a horse. Overall measurement approximately 2.25" x 3.25". Age toned and corners a little rounded but overall a pleasing very good example. An interesting artifact of a small lottery, listing 60 prizes, almost certainly this was intended to liquidate an estate, or settle a bankruptcy. Lotteries were a traditional method of raising funds for both public and private purposes, including the United States Lottery, which helped to finance the Revolutionary War. This ticket is clearly American, and we surmise from Maryland or Virginia, but we have been unable to determine precisely from whence it originated.
Seller ID: 395953
Subject: Americana, Ephemera