[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 ? x 5 ??. 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.