The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes

New State Lottery, Swift and Co, a skit note advertising the sale of tickets for a lottery with a total prize pool of £200,000, to be held on October 19th (1811), with text ‘The reader is respectfully informed, that the Present State Lottery contains Five Prices of Twenty Thousand Pounds, besides other Capitals and inferior Prizes, amounting to Two Hundred Thousand Pounds; the whole of which will be distributed to the Public on the 19th of Next Month; Tickets and Shares which are much cheaper than the last Lottery, are selling in great variety at the fortunate Offices of Swift and Co.’, along with a list of their offices, fine and scarce
Outing unlisted £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes.

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