Author: LOTTERY ADVERT.
Title: State Lottery, [C]ontaining Six Prizes of £20,000, Begins Drawing June 28, 1808.... Tickets and Shares are selling by J. Brook, 2, Jamaica-Row, Near the Moat, Birmingham, Agent to Brooke and CO. London.
Description: [?Birmingham], 1808. A small advertising leaflet, measuring 220 x 128 mms., printed on one side only; small piece torn from upper right-hand corner and lower left-hand corner (no loss of text), hole in paper affecting "C" of Containing, 4 other holes in left-hand margin not affecting text, slightly browned. The scheme offered 5075 prizes from £15 to £20,000. The note at the bottom of the leaflet adds, "J. B. has sold in the Town of Birmingham, Shares of a £10,000, Two £1,000, and in the last lottery, No. 24,206, and No. 24,209, Both Prizes of £500."

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