Gambling Auction: Cards, Chips & Crooked Dice 2012-06-23 Auction - 349 Price Results - Potter & Potter Auctions in IL - Page 2
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126: Harry Anderson’s Stage Used Holdout - The Grappler261: Auto-Dicer. Demley, ca. 1920. Push-button dice gam337: Gambling wheel. American, ca. 1900. Hand painted,
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Gambling Auction: Cards, Chips & Crooked Dice

On June 23, 2012, Potter & Potter Auctions will conduct its second annual auction of gambling memorabilia. A highlight of the sale will be a recently discovered set of duplicate books from El Patio, an illegal mob-run casino from Cicero Illinois. Louis Campagna, one of Al Capone's closest bodyguards, owned a piece of the action at El Patio. The books - uncovered in the rafters of the club by a construction worker who helped demolished the building in the 1960s - lays out exactly what illegal gambling was going on there in the heyday of the mob in the Chicago 'burbs, and how the house almost always won. They recall the era of Prohibition and illegal gambling dens of the 1930s, depicted in movies like The Godfather. One of the books even ?names names,? cataloging the identities of all the employees at the club. The books have never, until now, seen the light of day. The auction will also feature relics of another dark side of gambling: cheating devices. These devices make winning games of chance a sure thing. Among them will be two Holdout Tables - pieces of furniture that secretly add or remove cards from the hands of the gambler, and another table which allows the operator to literally see through the backs of playing cards in his opponent?s hands. These will be complemented by many rare and early books on how to cheat at various table games. Among them are the true first edition of How Gamblers Win, of which only five examples are known; a possibly unique book on cheating at Baccarat, Le Guide du Jouer; and a first edition of S.W. Erdnase's The Expert at the Card Table. Rounding out the sale will be an assortment of decorative items, ephemera, punch boards, roulette wheels, faro dealing boxes, layouts, case keepers, corner rounders and trimmer, trade stimulators, associated gambling and gaming items and rare books on poker, dice, and trade catalogs.
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Steve Forte . Casino Game Protection. 2004: Forte, Steve. Casino Game Protection. A Comprehensive Guide. Las Vegas: SLF, 2004. Pictorial case wrap. Illustrated with photographs. 4to. Very good condition. Inscribed and signed by Forte.
0025: Steve Forte . Casino Game Protection. 2004Est. $300-$350
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R.F. Foster. Practical Poker. London, 1904: Foster, R.F. Practical Poker. London: Thomas De La Rue & Co., Ltd., 1904. Red embossed cloth stamped in gold. 12mo. Good. Jessel 558.
0028: R.F. Foster. Practical Poker. London, 1904Est. $100-$200
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A Gambling Bibliography. UNLV, 1972.: A Gambling Bibliography. Based on the Collection at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas: UNLV Library, 1972. Pictorial wraps, comb bound. Tall 8vo. Good condition.
0029: A Gambling Bibliography. UNLV, 1972.Est. $100-$150
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The Gamesters Law. London: Arthur Collins, 1708: The Gamesters Law. London: Printed for Arthur Collins at the Black Boy in Fleet-Street; and Sam Butler at Bernard’s Inn-Gate in Holbourn, 1708. 120 pp plus index. Full green leather elaborately
0030: The Gamesters Law. London: Arthur Collins, 1708Est. $3,000-$4,000
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Green, J.H. Gambling Exposed. Phila. 1857: Green, J.H. Gambling Exposed. A Full Exposition of all the Various Arts, Mysteries, and Miseries of Gambling. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, 1857. Brown embossed cloth, spine stamped in gold. Engraved
0036: Green, J.H. Gambling Exposed. Phila. 1857Est. $400-$600
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Green, J.H. Gambling Unmasked! NY, 1844: Green, J.H. Gambling Unmasked! Or, the Personal Experience of the Reformed Gambler, J.H. Green. New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co., 1844. Embossed cloth stamped in gold. Woodcut frontispiece, woodcut
0037: Green, J.H. Gambling Unmasked! NY, 1844Est. $400-$600
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Hardison, Theo. Poker. St. Louis, 1914.: Hardison, Theo. Poker. St. Louis, 1914. Green cloth stamped in black. Illustrated. 8vo. Cloth damaged at spine and extremities; contents sound.
0041: Hardison, Theo. Poker. St. Louis, 1914.Est. $200-$250
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How to Prevent Fraud. New York: 1882: How to Prevent Fraud. New York: Chamberlain Manufg. Co., 1882. Dark green wraps. Illustrated. 8vo. Vertical fold, top edges of pages chipped not affecting text. Rare. An unusual early publication
0046: How to Prevent Fraud. New York: 1882Est. $250-$350
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