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Lot Title: Massachusetts Colonial Receipt, Sword in Hand, December 1777
Lot Number: 54
Description: The JavaScript Consignment. Anderson MA-11, State of Massachusetts lottery bond issued during the American Revolution. The bond is mostly printed and partly penned on traditional American certificate stock of the time, with verbiage by which the state has "Received of Ezekiel Sawier the sum of Twenty Pounds Seventeen Schillings for the use and service of the State of Massachusetts-Bay, and in Behalf of said State | to repay to the said Ezekiel Sawier or Bearer by the first day of March, A.D. 1781 the aforesaid Sum | with Interest Annually , at Six per Cent. per Annum." The upper left corner of the certificate portrays a delightful vignette of a patriot, sword at ready, encircled by a rattlesnake with thirteen rattles, an allegorical representation of the United States prepared for battle. Engraved by Nathaniel Hurd.
Estimate: $370-$425
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Massachusetts Colonial Receipt, Sword in Hand, December 1777
Massachusetts Colonial Receipt, Sword in Hand, December 1777
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