1839 Cuba Real Lotería Colonial Lottery Ticket – Sorteo 305 – Spanish Cuba
1839 Cuba Real Lotería Colonial Lottery Ticket – Sorteo 305 – Spanish Cuba
Original 1839 Cuban Colonial Lottery Ticket – Real Lotería de la Siempre Fiel Isla de Cuba
Original nineteenth-century lottery ticket fragment issued by the Real Lotería de la Siempre Fiel Isla de Cuba during the Spanish colonial period.
This historic piece is an “Octavo de billete” (one-eighth lottery ticket) for Drawing No. 305, scheduled to take place on March 27, 1839. The ticket bears number 1677 and states a value of four reales.
Printed with an ornate decorative border and Spanish royal emblem, the ticket also retains period validation markings, stamps, and manuscript elements characteristic of issued lottery material.
Details:
- Country: Cuba
- Period: Spanish Colonial Cuba
- Institution: Real Lotería de la Siempre Fiel Isla de Cuba
- Date: March 27, 1839
- Drawing: No. 305
- Ticket number: 1677
- Fraction: Octavo de billete (1/8 ticket)
- Stated value: Four reales
- Language: Spanish
- Original period document
Condition: Antique condition with substantial age toning, staining, handling wear and edge wear. A darkened/burned area is present at the upper left and affects part of a stamped area and printed text. Additional staining and remnants are visible on the reverse. Please examine all photographs carefully, as they form an important part of the condition description.
An evocative surviving piece of early 19th-century Cuban social and economic history, dating from Spanish colonial rule and suitable for collections of Cuban history, lottery ephemera, Spanish colonial material, or early Caribbean documents.
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