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 | Apr 16, 2012 | 09:48 pm EDT
If you happen to be a collector of casino dealing shoes you should definitely have at least one antique Caro shoe in your collection. I happen to be fortunate enough to have two of them. Both are six-deck chemin de fer shoes, both are made from mahogany, but they are not identical.The first shoe has green hardware and a handle at the rear. I bought...
| Feb 29, 2012 | 11:15 pm EST
JAJ from Paris was a leading European maker of gaming equipment, back in the early 1900s. To this day I do not know what JAJ stands for, but I'm pretty sure that one of the letters J must stand for "jeux," which is the French word for games. The last letter J is usually flipped, so that the abbreviation JAJ becomes symmetrical. This often confuses...
| Feb 19, 2012 | 01:33 pm EST
It would be an understatement to say, they just don't make them like that any more, cause the fact is, they just don't make them any more, period. And, nowadays, most people wouldn't even know what they are. The object in question is an antique device that used to be used for keeping scores during a card game. The version made of wood and ivory has...
| Jan 31, 2012 | 11:12 pm EST
If I don't publish a blog post tonight, the whole moth of January will go by without a single blog post. So, I better do it before the clock strikes midnight. I've been meaning to blog about a casino scam that involved beating an automatic ShuffleMaster card shuffler. The scam is already old news, but since I'm not in the breaking news business I g...
| Dec 30, 2011 | 10:20 pm EST
This will be my last blog post in the year 2011. So, I better end the year with something interesting, like, counterfeit playing cards. Spotting fakes is all about the details, so this post will be quite elaborate. Hopefully it will also make some collectors wiser and prevent them from being duped; unless you're like me and you actually want to hav...
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