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Chicago, IL, United States
Auction Details
Gambling Memorabilia & Rare Playing Cards
Potter & Potter Auctions
Our annual auction of rare playing cards and gambling memorabilia takes place on May 21st, 2016. This year's offering includes many special items: a wide array of vintage poker chips, truly rare books on cheating at cards, unusual holdout devices, many ivory objects, salesman's samples, slot machines, prints & graphics, and much more.
Among the material going on the block will be portions of the Ron Wohl Collection, roulette wheels, and early American playing cards, including several lovely Transformation packs!
The auction takes place at 10:00 am on Saturday, May 21st in our Chicago Gallery. Catalogs ship approximately three weeks prior to the sale. Previews take place in the gallery in the days preceding the auction, from 10am - 5pm, CST.
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![[Vernon, Dai] Three Gambling Classics from Dai Vernon's: [Vernon, Dai] Three Gambling Classics from Dai Vernon's Library [Signed]. Las Vegas: Gambler's Book Club, 1970s. Publisher's printed wraps. Each signed on the title page by Vernon. Illustrated. 8vos.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/87989/45082522_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1461685787)
![Brelsford, C.E.H and C.W. Dimick. 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 fully colored lithographic panels plus front and back cover in the publisher's string binding.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/87989/45082523_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1461685787)
![Breitkopf, [Johann Gottlob] Imman. Versuch den Ursprung: Breitkopf, [Johann Gottlob] Imman. Versuch den Ursprung der Spielkarten, die Einfhrung des Leinenpapieres, und den Anfang der Holzschneidekunst in Europa Zu Erforschen. Leipzig: Author, 1784. First](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/87989/45082524_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1461685787)

![Bullet, Jean Baptiste. Recherches Historiques sur les: Bullet, Jean Baptiste. Recherches Historiques sur les Cartes a Jouer. Lyon: J. Deville Libraire, 1757. First Edition. Mottled paper sides, banded leather spine stamped in gilt. 4 leaves, p. [1] 2-163](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/87989/45082526_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1461685787)



![[Card Counting] Card Memory: A Simple System of: [Card Counting] Card Memory: A Simple System of Memorizing Playing Cards. New York: Players Publishing, 1920. Color pictorial wrappers. A few tables and diagrams. Hornmann Magic dealer's stamp on](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/87989/45082530_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1461685787)
![[Carnival] Grazzini, Anton Francesco. Tutti I Trionfi,: [Carnival] Grazzini, Anton Francesco. Tutti I Trionfi, Carri, Mascherate O Canti Carnascialeschi Andati per Firenze, Dal Tempo Del Magnifico Lorenzo De Medici Lucca, ca. 1750. Two volumes, brown calf](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/87989/45082531_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1461940901)

![[Cheating and Expos] Group of Five Vintage Books and: [Cheating and Expos] Group of Five Vintage Books and Booklets. Including Kid Canfield The Reformed Confidence Man and Gambler (New York, 1911); Gambling and Confidence Games Exposed (Chicago, 1896);](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/87989/45082533_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1461685787)
![[Cheating and Expos] Group of 12 Vintage Booklets on: [Cheating and Expos] Group of 12 Vintage Booklets on Card Sharping and Cheating. Including Card Sharpers: Their Tricks Exposed (1902) by Robert-Houdin (trans. Hilliar); How It's Done Cards and Coins](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/87989/45082534_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1461685787)

![[Coin-Op] Two Booklets on Slots and Coin Machines.: [Coin-Op] Two Booklets on Slots and Coin Machines. Including “Slot-O-Mania" (ca. 1939) by Trump, illus. by Myers, ex-libris Library of Congress Pamphlet Collection, a comic account of “playing](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/87989/45082536_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1461685787)


![[Crime] Shelf of 10 Nineteenth Century Books on Crime: [Crime] Shelf of 10 Nineteenth Century Books on Crime and Fraud. Including Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life (1895) by Caminada; Frauds of America (1896) by Redmond; Shams; Or, Uncle Ben's](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/87989/45082539_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1461685787)
![[Crime] Two Booklets on Criminal Slang. Including: [Crime] Two Booklets on Criminal Slang. Including Underworld Slang (Kansas City, 1929) by M.A. Gill; and Criminalese: Slang Talk of the Criminal (1926) by James Finerty. 30 and 72 pages,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/87989/45082540_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1461685787)

