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Card-Cheating Equipment

Since this site deal primarily with the subject of cheating at cards, the cheating equipment listed on this page

Furthermore, some of the gambling equipment listed in this collection also appears in some other chapters on this site, mainly in holdout devices, marked cards as well as in our online shop.

card-cheating equipment

Arm Pressure Holdout, Caroselli, ca. 1930s - an arm pressure holdout, possibly inspired by the HC Evans model

Arm Pressure Holdout, HC Evans, ca. 1925 - a typical arm pressure holdout from teh early 1900s

Beanies - a gaff used for cheating in self-dealt poker games

Bug - a simple holdout gaff used to switch cards when cheating at poker

Brace for Dealing Shoe - a production tool used for assembling a dealing shoe

Camera System - a fully functional camera system for marked cards

Card Presses - card presses, used mostly by faro banks, to keep the cards straight

Card Trimmers - machines used in the production of stripper decks and trims

Chink Ink - a specialized container of daub

Corner Rounder - a machine used to restore the corners of playing cards, after trimming

The "Fry Pan" Deck Switcher - a simple gaff used for cold decking scams

Gaffed Blackjack Prism Shoe - a gaffed blackjack dealing shoe, fitted with a prism to peek at the top card

Gaffed Faro Box - one of the infamous gaffed faro boxes from the 1900's

Gaffed Skeleton Faro Box - an open-sided gaffed faro box

HC Evans Blockout Ink - an original vial of blockout ink, from HC Evans

Luminous Contact Lenses - various contact lenses for reading marked cards

Luminous Daub - an assortment of various luminous daubs

Luminous Visor - the original luminous visor sold by the KC Card Co

Martin-Type Holdout Machines - mechanical holdout machines for cheating at poker

N Daub - professional-grade daub for marking cards during the course of a game

Peggers - a pocket card punch used to make marked cards with blister marks

Pegger Forming Tools and Dies - a collection of tools used in the manufacturing of peggers

Pipe Shiner - an antique shiner concealed inside a pipe

Rough-and-Smooth Blackjack Dealing Shoe - a gaffed blackjack dealing shoe

Short Sleeve Holdout - the classic short-sleeve poker holdout

Slick Sleeve Shirt for Mechanical Holdout Machine - a modified short used with holdout machines

The "Wizard" Cuff Holders - the cuff holder commonly sold as an antique holdout

Three-Card Monte - an authentic set of cards used by a three-card monte mob

Thumb Prick - a miniature antique card punch

"Vampire" Sleeve Holdout - an antique mechanical holdout machine with a Jacob's ladder mechanism