MARCH 4, 2007

HAPPY SPRING---SOON!

Hello,

This is ONENEVADADOLLAR’S 31st notice of items for sale on EBAY.

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

On Sunday, March 4, 2007 between 2:00 PM and 2:45 PM PST --- 107 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 (SEE THE CAESARS 50 CENT CHIP!), Some CALIFORNIA, an OREGON, a CRUISE SHIP, a SEYMOUR CODED set, a FANTASY set from the ESPN TV show TILT, an IOWA , a couple of UFC’s, an ADVERTISING chip, etc…

AND:

Some really nice DICE, (HORSESHOE, DUNES, FREMONT, HOLIDAY and a UFC pair from KINGS!).

AND

Some great individual MATCHBOOK COVERS, PHENOMENAL COVERS from the THUNDERBIRD and FLAMINGO, DICK GRAVES NUGGET!

AND

MORE unusual DISPLAYS of SINGLE CARDS from multiple DECKS from several casinos, a great SELECTION OF SINGLE CARDS from casinos across the USA!

AND

Some DECKS of cards including ONE unopened and unused GOLDEN NUGGET deck!

AND

Some really nice POSTCARDS (DI, HOLIDAY, FREMONT ST., MARINA, SANDS, etc)

AND

Some ASHTRAYS (DEL WEBB’S SAHARA, EL MOROCCO, ((GOLDEN NUGGET, a really different kind too!)), THE MINT, etc...

AND

Some great TOKENS; KIT CARSON, FORT LUCINDA, BOB CASHELL’S HORSESHOE, DUNES, etc...

AND
A couple of SILVER STRIKES; (PALMS, CAESARS and CALIFORNIA CLUB

For the THIRD time I am selling a quantity chips & tokens at fixed auction!

We are selling a quantity of:

BINGO PALACE NCV CHIP
EL CAPITAN NCV CHIP
FORT LUCINDA $1 UNCIRCULATED TOKEN
KIT CARSON UNCIRCULATED $1 TOKEN
PACOS RENO 25 CENT CHIP

My reasoning goes like this, I have a quantity of each, I have priced them very fairly and I believe there are any number of BUYERS who would welcome a lower price without the hassle of competitive bidding!
SO FAR THIS HAS BEEN MET WITH QUITE A BIT OF APPROVAL!

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 STARDUST TRIAL DIE!

This die would be unidentifiable were it not for the 7 tiny stars that have been "trialed" on 3 sides of the same die. I have scanned the exact "real" dice from one of the dice books and these tiny stars match up exactly. This is a really cool piece and only because of the tiny stars do you know what CASINO they were working on!

AND LASTLY

A great piece of PAPER EPHEMERA from the WESTERNER CASINO in downtown LV. It’s 55 year sold!

Thanks,

Christine & Sheldon Smith
ONENEVADADOLLAR
LM-82/83