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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Australian History
• Sale Date:
  11 Dec 2017 ~ 10am
• Lot #:
  596
• Lot Description:
  THE WENTWORTH DIGGINGS - A MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE - A Gold Miner’s Marriage Certificate signed by John Dunmore Lang [1799 - 1878]
  Letterpress, signed, inscribed and dated “Twelfth day of April, 1864” , 30 x 25cm. Text includes “(Copy of) Certificate of Marriage. I, John Dunmore Lang, being Seniors Minister of the Scots Church, Sydney, do hereby certify that I have this day at the Scots Church duly celebrated the marriage between Heinrich Mohrman, bachelor, Goldminer, Wentworth Diggings, and Elizabeth Ross, spinster.”
• Notes:
  Lang was the first prominent advocate of an independent Australian nation and of Australian republicanism.
• Estimate:
  A$500 - 600
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Memorabilia

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