- LARGE HAND PAINTED PORCELAIN FIGURINE
GROUPING, THE CHE...Style of Capodiomonte, modeled as 3 ladies playing cards with 2 cheating, on Rococo style base.
Maker's mark to bottom base. Small chips throughout.
Issued:...
[more like this] - GROUP OF 30 VIDEO CASSETTES AND DVDS
ON GAMBLING.Group of 30 Video Cassettes and DVDs on Gambling. Including instructional cassettes such as Alan Ackerman’s Advanced Card Control Video Series (vols. I-III,...
[more like this] - MOSS, FLOYD. CARD CHEATS – HOW THEY
OPERATE.Moss, Floyd. Card Cheats – How They Operate. New York: William-Frederick Press, 1950. Pictorial soft wrappers. Illustrated photographically. 8vo. 77 pages. Former...
[more like this] - JOHNSON, J.H. THREE BOOKLETS ON CHEATING
AT POKER AND D...Johnson, J.H. Three Booklets on Cheating at Poker and Dice. Kansas City, 1932. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Including “Poker to Win” (16pp.); “Stud...
[more like this] - HOW ‘TIS DONE; OR THE SECRET OUT.How
‘Tis Done; or The Secret Out. Lehigh, New York: Curtiss Publishing, ca. 1900. Red pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. 8vo. 16 pages. Includes marked cards, reflectors, and...
[more like this] - GREEN, KAY. CHEATING CHEATERS. AUTHENTIC
EXPOSE.Green, Kay. Cheating Cheaters. Authentic Expose. Minneapolis, 1944. Pictorial wrappers. 40pp. Illustrated with photographs showing the tricks used in cheating at poker,...
[more like this] - [CHEATING AND EXPOSE] A DOZEN VINTAGE
AND MODERN BOOKLE...[Cheating and Expose] A Dozen Vintage and Modern Booklets on Cheating and Crooked Gambling. Including The Expert at the Card Table (Frost, ca. 1940s);...
[more like this] - CONGRESS CO. FARO PLAYING CARDS.Congress
Co. Faro Playing Cards. New York (?), ca. 1850. 52/52. Near mint. There has been a very light transfer of the back design to the faces but does not detract from this rare...
[more like this] - MUTOSCOPE REEL. BUSINESSMAN CHEATING
WITH SECRETARY.Mutoscope Reel. Businessman Cheating With Secretary. New York, International Mutoscope Reel Co, ca. 1910s. Subject No. 7006. In an office, a businessman cheats...
[more like this] - COUNTERFEIT VFW BINGO CARD FOR CHEATING.Counterfeit
VFW Bingo Card for Cheating. Duluth, Minn., ca. 1980s. Paper-covered double-ply cardboard bingo card, gaffed in order to allow a cheater to covertly rotate numbers on the...
[more like this] - [CHEATING – INSTRUCTIONS] FILE OF
INSTRUCTIONAL SHEETS ...[Cheating – Instructions] File of Instructional Sheets for Crooked Gambling Products. Chicago: A.M.A., ca. 1960s. Approximately three dozen pieces,...
[more like this] - FOUR “BUG” HOLDOUTS.Four “Bug”
Holdouts. Used to conceal or “hold out” cards under a table for use by a card cheat. Brass, steel, and spring steel construction. Four different sizes, the longest 6 ½”....
[more like this] - GAMBLERS’ SHINERS.Gamblers’ Shiners.
Including over one dozen tiny mirrors, one attached to a US penny, and another slightly larger mirror. Used by cheats to peek at cards while dealing....
[more like this] - CHEATING MATCH BOX WITH MIRROR.Cheating
Match Box with Mirror. American, [n.d.]. An apparently innocent matchbox conceals a small mirror (“shiner”), allowing the dealer to secretly glimpse cards as they pass...
[more like this] - TWO BUG HOLDOUTS.Two Bug Holdouts. Cheating
devices secretly affixed underneath a card table and used to “hold out” cards from the deck. One a spring steel device, the other homemade from brass and wire. The largest...
[more like this] - A KENO BALL BOARD WITH 73 (OF 75) WOOD
KENO BALLS, AN H...A Keno Ball Board With 73 (of 75) Wood Keno Balls, an H.E. Mason Box of 25 Keno Balls, and 10 H.C. Evans Keno Cards. Included is an old cloth bag that housed...
[more like this] - EARLY NEW YORK CARD CHEATING AFFIDAVIT,
INDICTMENT, AND...Early New York Card Cheating Affidavit, Indictment, and Disposition. Three documents dated July 8 - 17 1829. The first a sworn affidavit reading, in part,...
[more like this] - CARD CHEATS – HOW THEY OPERATE.Moss,
Floyd. Card Cheats – How They Operate. New York: William-Frederick Press, 1950. Pictorial soft wrappers. Illustrated photographically. 8vo. 77 pages. Minor wear along spine....
[more like this] - GAMBLING DEMONSTRATION SUITCASE.Gambling
Demonstration Suitcase. North Hollywood: Merv Taylor, ca. 1955. Sturdy suitcase converts into a freestanding, tiered easel with hidden servante and shelves from which the...
[more like this] - PAIR OF 18TH C OIL PAINTINGS ON CANVAS,
ITALIAN,UNSIGNED. ONE DEPICTS 3 MEN PLAYING CARDS AND 1 MAN IS CHEATING. THE OTHER SHOWS A MAN WITH A SWORD HOLDING HANDS WITH A YOUNG WOMAN. IN PERIOD GILDED FRAMES. ...
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