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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Australian History
• Sale Date:
  11 Dec 2017 ~ 10am
• Lot #:
  594
• Lot Description:
  Chromolithographic advertising label, circa 1860, for Welcome Nugget tobacco
  35 x 17 cm. With T.C.Williams Co. Manufacturers Virgivia U.S.A. at base and depicting a gold miner with pick and shovel holding aloft an enormous gold nugget.
• Notes:
  The brand name and advertisement reference the Welcome Nugget, discovered at Bakery Hill, Ballarat in 1858, and weighing 71.3 kilograms (incorrectly shown as 2217 ounces), at the time the largest alluvial gold nugget ever found. It has only ever been surpassed in weight by the Welcome Stranger, unearthed in 1869, also on the central Victorian goldfields.
• Estimate:
  A$300 - 350
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Collectables

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