Details
WASHINGTON, GEORGE, President. Partly printed document signed ("G. Washington"), [Mount Vernon, VA], 1768. 1 page, a small oblong, 39 x 114 mm. (1 9/16 x 4½ in.), ticket number accomplished in ink, neatly mounted in elaborate large blue morocco gilt display and storage case, with history of the Mountain Road Lottery, in gilt lettering, within.
WASHINGTON AND THE MOUNTAIN ROAD LOTTERY
One of the only documents in which this early form of Washington's famous signature is obtainable with any regularity. The document is a partly printed lottery ticket (No. 351) with decorative typographical orna'ents at left and bottom edges, and it entitles the purchaser to "...whatever Prize may happen to be drawn against its Number in the Mountain Road Lottery..." With bust-lenth printed portrait of Washington.
WASHINGTON AND THE MOUNTAIN ROAD LOTTERY
One of the only documents in which this early form of Washington's famous signature is obtainable with any regularity. The document is a partly printed lottery ticket (No. 351) with decorative typographical orna'ents at left and bottom edges, and it entitles the purchaser to "...whatever Prize may happen to be drawn against its Number in the Mountain Road Lottery..." With bust-lenth printed portrait of Washington.