Havana Lottery of Kentucky AND [Form LetterÑEgerton Brothers]
by [AMERICANAÑKENTUCKY]. Lottery
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Charlottesville , Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York City: Fletcher Bros., 1866. . Handbill, 8 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches text within plain double-rule border. The lottery offers 5,200 hundred prices ranging from a grand prize of $40,000 to 5,000 prizes of $20.00 each to be drawn in Covington, Kentucky on January 31st, 1866Sold with a form letter from Egerton Bros., General Lottery Agents in Covington, Kentucky and dated August 23rd, 1864 for another Havana Lottery, also to be drawn at Covington, on September 30th, 1864. The letter, which is chipped at the margins, is in facsimile hand and offers the prospective purchaser a package of 16 tickets for $10.00 "And so sure are we that we understand our business, would advise you to make this investment at all hazards and will agree that if the [none of the tickets] we send you does not draw at the very least one of the 5000 prizes we will send you another [package] in any of the extra lotteries at our own expense."The only reference we have found is in the Filson Library which has a similar handbill with a later date and letter from a different firm offering the same terms as this letter.
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- Bookseller
- Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2002
- Title
- Havana Lottery of Kentucky AND [Form LetterÑEgerton Brothers]
- Author
- [AMERICANAÑKENTUCKY]. Lottery
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- New York City: Fletcher Bros., 1866.
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Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books
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Charlottesville , Virginia
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Shipping, handling and insurance are charged at $7.50 for the first volume; $2.00 for each additional volume.
Mastercard or Visa, or by check in U.S. funds. Virginia residents please
add 5.3% sales tax.
New customers unknown to us, please send check with order. Libraries will be billed in any manner suited to their budgetary requirements.
Shipping, handling and insurance are charged at $7.50 for the first volume; $2.00 for each additional volume.
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...