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196 - LOTTERIES: A fine collection of 28 documents, including: Roy…
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LOTTERIES: A fine collection of 28 documents, including: Royal Edict revoking the tontine-style lottery, 1715. Decree of the King’s Council of State concerning the lottery previously granted to the Princess of England, 8 pages, 1716. A parchment deed dated 1731. Receipt for 48 livres in lottery tickets on semi-printed parchment, 1777. Royal Edict establishing a lottery for life annuities and perpetual annuities, 1777. Notarial deed of 1776, loan for the purchase of the office of administrator of the Royal Lottery. Prospectus for the second national lottery of houses, buildings and furniture, 37 pages, Year III. Decree of the Directory in Year VI re-establishing and organising the national lottery. Document dated 14 April 1803 from the administration of the Tuscan lottery. Imperial Lottery of France, Bordeaux draw, sheet with a pair of results, 1809. Royal Lottery of France re-established by the law of Year 6. Four-page notice from 1815. Leaflet for the *Figaro* lottery, July 1835. Eight 19th-century tickets. Newspaper from 1809 containing a long article on a trial in Douai concerning a lottery scam. Circular, the Act of 1792, letters patent, etc.
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About the sale FREEMASONRY – HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
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Auction time 07/23/2026 at 10:10 AM
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