May 13, 2007

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!

Hello,

This is ONENEVADADOLLAR’S 33rd notice of items for sale on EBAY.

As always, thank you to the WATCHERS, the BIDDERS and of course the BUYERS!

On Sunday, May 13, 2007 between 2:00 PM and 3:15 PM PDT --- 142 items went up on eBay! The start times were staggered! This is a SEVEN-day listing!

I am listing a whole bunch of chips:

NEVADA (NEW & OLD), north & south, a couple of really nice chips (CHECK OUT THE HAROLDS CLUB ROULETTE), also CALIFORNIA (including the SF card company 6 chip set), ATLANTIC CITY (a pretty decent rarity), a couple of ILLEGALS, (including the entire CHESTERFIELD CLUB ILLEGAL SET, chip by chip), a CRUISE SHIP chip, an ARUBA, a couple of PUERTO RICOS, a nice SEYMOUR CODED old poker chip threesome AND an AUSTRALIAN chip too!

AND:

Some really nice DICE, (CASTAWAYS, (they are gorgeous), DI, SHOWBOAT, plus a TERRIBLE showing of how to ruin STARDUST dice, AND a pair of dice from GINO, who the h… was GINO?, etc...

AND

Some great individual MATCHBOOKS & COVERS, a PHENOMENAL COVER from the SAHARA with PAINTED MATCHES in the form of the HOTEL, and MY newest set-up, CASINO MATCH COVERS in groups by CASINO, etc..

AND

MORE unusual DISPLAYS of SINGLE CARDS from multiple DECKS from several casinos, a great SELECTION OF SINGLE CARDS from MISSISSIPPI, MICHIGAN, MINNESOTA and northern and southern NEVADA casinos!

AND

Some DECKS of cards including ONE unopened and unused DI deck and one from the CLUB RENO which is pretty darn OLD!

AND

Some really nice POSTCARDS (BALLYS, HOLIDAY, HELLDORADO), and THE FLAMINGO CASINO CRUISE BOAT, etc..

AND

Some ASHTRAYS (ALADDIN, TROPICANA), and a WESTWARD HO from when it was motel!, etc..

AND

Some great TOKENS, (ALADDIN, TROPICANA, BOARDWALK, DUNES, MGM, (opening year at the MGM series of characters, LUCEY, LOOEY, OWLIN, etc) LIBERTY and VICTORY BELL tokens too, etc.

AND
A couple of SILVER STRIKES—BALLYS, FLAMINGO, PALMS, HARD ROCK!

AND ANOTHER OFFERING OF

TRIAL DICE

A new collectible (?) MAYBE – PROBABLY, and definitely MOST interesting to the casino memorabilia collector for sure. These are not CULLS or REJECTS. These are not ERROR dice. They have not been:

“PIN PRICKED” ala Langworthy!
“VOID” ala Bud Jones
SILVER X’d ala Paul-son

These are TRIAL DICE.

They have been used to test impressions. They are used repeatedly as different casino dice come up to be tested. They are used several times and then they are meant to be TOSSED. These and a goodly number of others were not. Dice collectors SHOULD have these in their collections. Each DIE is unique as they were used to TEST until they could not be used anymore!

I have consulted with what I consider to be two of the most knowledgeable folk in the casino collectable world!

To quote from one of them, “These “TRIAL DICE” are consistent with dies being used by the manufacturer for test impressions. They stamp one side and make adjustments to center the text better, adjust the temperatures, or whatever. Rather than waste another DIE, they stamp another side to double check their adjustments. Once, they get going, and make a genuine mistake, that DIE gets tossed into a bin to be used for test impressions the next time they change dies. That’s why you see odd mixtures of mistakes and repeated impressions.”

From another knowledgeable source:

The “TRIAL DICE” are very similar to the “FLOOR SWEEPERS” of chipping where the chip manufacturer uses the same chip repeatedly until the chip impression, stamp thickness and alignment are correct. They use the chips repeatedly until they are full of different impressions.”

When looking at one of these DIE in my eBay sales, REMEMBER, you are looking at only one DIE and the only one there is of it!

AND you really need to look at them especially the FOUR QUEENS group!

AND

TWO glasses, TOM COLLINS from the MINT.

AND some STRANGE MISCELLANY:

HARD ROCK BUTTON
CAESARS PALACE SAMMY DAVIS AND BILL COSBY BUTTON
SPIRIT OF THE RODEO STICK PIN
FRONTIER CASINO BELT BUCKLE
MINT CASINO COASTERS
DESERT INN SHOEHORN

Thanks,

Christine & Sheldon Smith
ONENEVADADOLLAR
LM-82/83