This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/25/2023
[GAMBLING SUPPLIES] Collection of Crooked Gambling Ephemera. American, 1880s – 1940s. Including seven advertisements issued by Wm. Suydam, for crooked and square roulette wheels, “The Spy” (an “advantage tool” also known as a “shiner”), strippers, marked playing cards (advertised on a secondary use Steamboat card), an advertising mailing cover, a Pedestrian Stop Wheel, $5.00 revolver, and “The Bug” advertised together with a variety of publications on cheating, a clipped Suydam advertisement; a vintage advertisement for dirty French “Transparent” playing cards; Perfection Bee 67 marked cards available from Mason & Co. and K.C. Card Co.; B.H. McHarg’s advertisement for “special paraphernalia” (various cheating devices); and a handbill advertising The Complete Poker Player by Blackbridge, together with a shiner ring. The largest 8 ½ x 5 ½”. Generally very good or better. A scarce grouping of truly ephemeral material related to cheating and advantage play. Many of these handbills were used as interstitial illustrations in Ricky Jay Plays Poker.