Gambling Memorabilia & Rare Playing Cards II 2017-05-07 Auction - 369 Price Results - Potter & Potter Auctions in IL
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Will & Finck Card Trimmer.: Will & Finck Card Trimmer. San Francisco, ca. 1890. Scissor-type card trimmer for creating Strippers and other gaffed cards. Steel base, brass fittings, heavy metal shears. Base 6 1/8 x 6 1/8”.
0635: Will & Finck Card Trimmer.Est. $1,000-$1,500
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Will & Finck Card Trimmer.: Will & Finck Card Trimmer. San Francisco, ca. 1890. Scissor-type card trimmer for creating Strippers and other gaffed cards. Steel base, brass fittings, heavy metal shears. Unusual knobs at left side
0636: Will & Finck Card Trimmer.Est. $1,000-$1,500
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Card Trimmer.: Card Trimmer. Circa 1980. Precision metal device allows the cheater to subtly shave the edges of cards clamped between the plates. Knurled thumbscrews. Aluminum plates.
0637: Card Trimmer.Est. $400-$600Lot Passed
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Card Trimmer.: Card Trimmer. Circa 1900. Brass and steel scissors-type card trimmer for creating strippers and other gaffed cards. Heavy metal shears and nice brass adjustments.
0638: Card Trimmer.Est. $600-$800
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F.E. Mason Brass & Steel Card Trimmer.: F.E. Mason Brass & Steel Card Trimmer. American, ca. 1890. Mason was a fine engraver of firearms, and while it’s not definitely known that this is the same F.E. Mason, it seems likely based on the
0639: F.E. Mason Brass & Steel Card Trimmer.Est. $1,000-$1,400
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Will & Finck Large Corner Rounder.: Will & Finck Large Corner Rounder. San Francisco, ca. 1890. Brass and steel corner rounder sits on the original wood base. Wood punch handle. Hallmarked in two places. 7 ½”. Excellent.
0640: Will & Finck Large Corner Rounder.Est. $1,200-$1,600
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Will & Finck Bench Card Punch.: Will & Finck Bench Card Punch. San Francisco, ca. 1880s. Brass device used to make precise and subtle marks onto the surface of a playing card to later assist the crooked dealer in identifying them.
0641: Will & Finck Bench Card Punch.Est. $1,800-$2,200
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Will & Finck Crooked Faro Dealing Box.: Will & Finck Crooked Faro Dealing Box. San Francisco, ca. 1880s. Gorgeous German silver “three-way” dealing box prepared in order to allow the user to maneuver seamlessly between fair dealing,
0642: Will & Finck Crooked Faro Dealing Box.Est. $1,500-$2,000
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Will & Finck Roulette Ball Clamp.: Will & Finck Roulette Ball Clamp. San Francisco, ca. 1880s. Gleaming metal clamp used to subtly manipulate the shape of roulette balls by adding sustained pressure to a specific area. 5 ½” long.
0643: Will & Finck Roulette Ball Clamp.Est. $500-$700
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Gaffed Faro Dealing Box.: Gaffed Faro Dealing Box. Chicago: Mason & Co., ca. 1920. German silver box used to deal cards in the game of faro. Gaffed internally. Hidden button on the bottom of the box activates the mechanism.
0644: Gaffed Faro Dealing Box.Est. $800-$1,200
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Corner Rounder.: Corner Rounder. American, ca. 1900. Brass and steel unmarked lever style corner rounder that can be mounted on table. Excellent. 4 ¾ x 4 ½”.
0646: Corner Rounder.Est. $400-$600
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Lot of Unfinished Brass Corner Rounders.: Lot of Unfinished Brass Corner Rounders. Four contemporary and finely made rounders apparently in the final stages of assembly, including four heavy brass bodies, together with bags and sleeves of
0647: Lot of Unfinished Brass Corner Rounders.Est. $500-$700
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Graham Dice Edger.: Graham Dice Edger. Circa 1950. Heavy cast steel device used for precision shaving of dice and other crooked apparatus. Approx. 9 x 4 x 3”. Light oxidation, else fine in appearance. Levers and
0648: Graham Dice Edger.Est. $800-$1,200
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Dice Beveling Block.: Dice Beveling Block. Vintage solid wooden block with green felt underside, used to make medium-strength beveled dice. Verbal provenance tracing the piece to dice hustler “Junior” Hunter Hinson.
0649: Dice Beveling Block.Est. $150-$250
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Matching Pair of Keno Gooses, One Gaffed and One: Matching Pair of Keno Gooses, One Gaffed and One Straight. San Francisco: John Kewnig, ca. 1885. Excellent. The push slide is stamped “J. Kewnig Mkr. 10 Stevenson St. S.F.” The gaffed goose
0651: Matching Pair of Keno Gooses, One Gaffed and OneEst. $4,000-$6,000
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Gaffed Round Table Roulette.: Gaffed Round Table Roulette. Chicago: H.C. Evans Co., ca. 1932. Handsome wooden roulette with two nickel-plated covers, one straight, one gaffed. Ball dropped through the funnel in the cover as wheel
0653: Gaffed Round Table Roulette.Est. $3,500-$4,500
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Gaffed “Bee Hive” Gambling Game.: Gaffed “Bee Hive” Gambling Game. Chicago: Hunt & Co., ca. 1930. Metal “cage” sits atop felt-covered wood base. A metal ball is dropped into wood/metal “cage”, sliding down into one of 30
0655: Gaffed “Bee Hive” Gambling Game.Est. $3,000-$5,000
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Gaffed World’s Fair High Striker.: Gaffed World’s Fair High Striker. Chicago: H.C. Evans, ca. 1915. Attractive and small hardwood high striker used as a trade stimulator in saloons. Engraved brass number plates, wooden construction.
0656: Gaffed World’s Fair High Striker.Est. $1,000-$1,500
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Arm Holdout.: Arm Holdout. American, ca. 1920. Also known as a sleeve holdout, third hand or Jacobs ladder. Made of aluminum and brass with original canvas strap. Works smoothly.
0657: Arm Holdout.Est. $1,000-$2,000
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Kepplinger Holdout Device.: Kepplinger Holdout Device. Bill Gusias [?], ca. 1980. Brass and steel with reinforced flexible tubing. Secret device strapped to the cheater’s arm and body delivers a card (or cards) into the hand.
0658: Kepplinger Holdout Device.Est. $1,200-$1,800
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