Hi Leon. Sorry, I was out for a few hours.
Nope, didn't look at the ACC. I did a few searches online and found a newspaper article (the first one posted here). I figured they had the right initials, were from NY, and if they'd been enterprising enough to get up an illegal lottery scheme, well, then they'd be just the type of fellows to try inserting baseball cards a few years later.
When I saw I'd won, I went back to try to find the darn article. I stumbled on another article (the second one posted here), and it has the correct spelling of their names.
Both are from March 2, 1884. No. 1 from the New York Sun. No. 2 from the New York Daily Tribune.
Jamie