1772 SWEDISH KING GUSTAV III
ROYAL PROCLAMATION

Royal Prohibition from King Gustaf III against Furniture and Goods Lotteries. The King is desirous of curtailing lotteries among the poor (lotteries among the already privileged are legal). The reason for this prohibition is that lotteries leave the person who arranged the lottery rich and the others poor. It tricks young people into the habit of gambling). The King also makes a point that the rich will keep their rights and privileges that are written in the law.

Contents in Swedish. Condition: Very Fine Black Print Broadside on single sheet, batonne laid paper, bifolium into four pages. Text on three pages. Manuscript markings showing postal delivery through the Swedish Royal Crown Post to Löderup, Skäne, for public proclamation. Measures 155mm wide x 195mm tall folded.

King Gustaf III - Gustav III
House of Holstein-Gottorp
13 January 1746 – March 29, 1792
Reigned (1771 - 1792)

Svensk Kronopost - Swedish Royal Crown Post
with Kronoslinga - Crown Coil (meander)

Post Detail:

 Crown Coil
 of the Royal Post

The wavy line (known as a meander) with two horizontal lines through it and three "crowns" in the spaces (all together known as a Crown Coil) was the indicia that this was to be sent through the Royal Swedish Crown Post. The text below likely indicates it was sent to a church in Löderup, in Skäne near Ystad, in the southeast of Sweden, where it was to be publicly proclaimed.

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