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Chicago, IL, United States
Auction Details
Gambling Memorabilia
Potter & Potter Auctions
Featuring the collection of Bob Rosenberger, the sale includes an array of truly scarce and rare material related to gambling, poker, playing cards, and other games of chance. A strong selection of books and periodicals, cheating devices (holdouts, crooked dice, etc.), vintage gaming tables, and faro equipment will be offered.
Other highlights include an important grouping of gambling and knife-maker trade catalogs, Old West material, cased gaming chip sets, vintage playing cards, and ephemera, all with a gambling or card-related theme.
Catalogs ship approximately three weeks prior to the auction. Previews take place in our Chicago gallery May 16 - 18, from 10:00am to 5:00pm.
Auction Curator:

Gabe Fajuri
PresidentTOP











![The Complete Poker Player. Original Cover Artwork.: [Original Artwork] [Blackbridge, John.] The Complete Poker Player. Original Cover Artwork. Circa 1890. Accomplished in pen, ink, and gouache on thin cardstock. Finely executed. 7 1/4 x 4 1/2". Likely](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/120743/61485844_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1524084731)
![Three Years in California.: Borthwick, J[ohn] D[avid]. Three Years in California. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1857. Full calf, rebacked. Marbled endsheets, title label on spine (chipped). Frontispiece and](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/120743/61485845_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1524084731)
![It’s All In The Draw.: Brelsford, C.E.H and C.W. Dimick. It's All In The Draw. [Boston]: [Forbes Litho.], 1895. Eight color lithographic card stock panels plus covers, in publisher's string binding. Advertises Russell and](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/120743/61485846_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1524084731)
![The Autocrat of the Poker Table.: (Brown, Garrett) Edwin S. Lorsch, pseud. The Autocrat of the Poker Table. [N.p], [n.d.], ca. 1916. Red cloth stamped in gold, black border and title panel on front. Portrait frontispiece of the](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/120743/61485847_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1524084731)




![The Mott Street Poker Club.: [Carleton, Henry Guy] The Mott Street Poker Club. New York and London: White & Allen, 1889. Blue publisher's pictorial boards, cloth spine. Illustrated. 8vo. Extremities lightly rubbed; very good.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/120743/61485852_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1524084731)
![The South Fifth Avenue Poker Club.: [Carleton, Henry Guy] The South Fifth Avenue Poker Club. New York: M. J. Ivers & Co., 1888. First edition. Pictorial wrappers (upper torn). Illustrated. 8vo. Short tear to cover, extremities worn,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/120743/61485853_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1524084731)
![Lectures Before the Thompson Street Poker Club.: [Carleton, Henry Guy] Lectures Before the Thompson Street Poker Club. New York and London: White & Allen, 1889. Brown publisher's cloth, cover stamped in black and gilt, brown floral endpapers,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/120743/61485854_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1524084731)
![The Thompson Street Poker Club.: [Carleton, Henry Guy] The Thompson Street Poker Club. New York: Gilliss Brothers, 1884. First edition. Publisher's pictorial paper covers. Pictorial frontispiece, illustrated. 8vo. Spine crudely](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/120743/61485855_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1524084731)
![Seventeen Booklets on Cheating at Cards.: [Cheating & Marked Cards] Seventeen Booklets on Cheating at Cards. Including Run-Up Systems (two editions); Master Key Systems (three editions); Scarne Explains Why You Can't Win by Audley Walsh; How](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/120743/61485856_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1524084731)
![Four Vintage Manuals on Cheating at Poker and Dice.: [Cheating] Four Vintage Manuals on Cheating at Poker and Dice. Including Dice to Win With by J.H. Johnson (1932); Rules for the Game of Poker by Robert D. Wilson (ca. 1940; includes a section on how](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/120743/61485857_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1524084731)


