APRIL 15, 2007

HAPPY I.R.S. DAY—NOT!

Hello,

This is ONENEVADADOLLAR’S 32nd notice of items for sale on EBAY.

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

On Sunday, April 15, 2007 between 2:00 PM and 2:45 PM PST --- 100 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, an OREGON, a CRUISE SHIP, a couple of ILLEGALS, etc…

AND:

Some really nice DICE, (SILVER CITY, MGM, ALADDIN,etc...

AND

Some great individual MATCHBOOK COVERS, PHENOMENAL COVERS from the DEBBIE REYNOLDS, CRYSTAL BAY CLUB, etc..

AND

MORE unusual DISPLAYS of SINGLE CARDS from multiple DECKS from several casinos, a great SELECTION OF SINGLE CARDS from FIVE different Nugget casinos!

AND

Some DECKS of cards including ONE unopened and unused DI deck!

AND

Some really nice POSTCARDS (CASTAWAYS, EL RANCHO, GOLDEN NUGGET, etc., with one really interesting B/W from Joe W. Brown HORSESHOE etc..

AND

Some ASHTRAYS (JOCKEY CLUB, JOE W. BROWN HORSESHOE, OWL MOTEL, SANDS SAFEX, etc..

AND

Some great MGM, SANDS, CAESARS, etc., TOKENS.

AND

A couple of SILVER STRIKES-- PALMS, FOUR QUEENS

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, one from the LUCKY CASINO (Mr. Lucky) and one from the SILVERBIRD, a Major MR Riddle Enterprise.

AND a collection of IMPERIAL PALACE CHIPS, here’s the story!

OK, HERE'S THE STORY. THESE CHIPS WERE BURIED IN CONCRETE/CEMENT SOME TIME IN THE LATE 80'S BETWEEN THE IMPERIAL PALACE AND O'SHEAS. THEY WERE BURIED ALONG WITH A WHOLE BUNCH OF IMPERIAL PALACE OLDER $1 TOKENS, SOME VERY STRANGE LEAD TOKENS, ONE OF WHICH I AM ALSO SELLING AND SOME TOKENS FROM A CRUISE LINE. WHY OR HOW THEY ALL CAME TO BE BURIED TOGETHER I HAVE NO IDEA. THAT IS A COMMON WAY OF DESTROYING CHIPS AND TOKENS THAT ARE NO LONGER IN PLAY FOR WHAT EVER REASON! THAT THEY WERE BURIED I AM CERTAIN.. SEE THE ACCOMPANYING PHOTO FOR THEM BEFORE I GOT THEM AND CLEANED THEM UP. YES, THEY HAVE BEEN CLEANED, THEY CANNOT BE CLEANED ANYMORE. I HAVE REMOVED AS MUCH OF THE MORTAR/CONCRETE AS I CAN. ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL THEY ARE IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE FOR BEING BURIED FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS!

AND LASTLY:

This is really interesting, at least for me:

OK, HERE'S THE STORY. THIS LEAD TOKEN WAS BURIED IN CONCRETE/CEMENT SOME TIME IN THE LATE 80'S BETWEEN THE IMPERIAL PALACE AND O'SHEAS. THEY WERE BURIED ALONG WITH A WHOLE BUNCH OF IMPERIAL PALACE OLDER $1 TOKENS, SOME IMPERIAL PALACE CHIPS, AND SOME TOKENS FROM A CRUISE LINE. THIS IS A LEAD TOKEN I AM SELLING. WHY OR HOW THEY ALL CAME TO BE BURIED TOGETHER I HAVE NO IDEA. THAT IS A COMMON WAY OF DESTROYING CHIPS AND TOKENS, BOTH REAL AND NOT REAL, THAT ARE NO LONGER IN PLAY OR HAVE BEEN FOUND IN THE MACHINES, OR FOR WHAT EVER REASON! THAT THEY WERE BURIED I AM CERTAIN.. SEE THE ACCOMPANYING PHOTO FOR THEM BEFORE I GOT THEM AND CLEANED THEM UP. YES, THEY HAVE BEEN CLEANED, THEY CANNOT BE CLEANED ANYMORE. I HAVE REMOVED AS MUCH OF THE MORTAR/CONCRETE AS I CAN. ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL THEY ARE IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE FOR BEING BURIED FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS! YOU ARE LOOKING AT "MIRROR" IMAGES OF TWO CASINO'S REGULAR TOKENS THAT WERE PRESSED INTO THE LEAD TOKEN!

DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS!

A LEAD CHEATERS TOKEN that was dug up along with the chips and other tokens. NO, I didn’t use the word CHEATER on EBAY, I am not crazy but you need to see it, TWO casinos mirror images from their $1 tokens, it is truly a piece of, albeit illegal, Nevada gaming history, I have a couple of more for the future but this one is among the best, almost all different!

One of the finest and most experienced collectors has verified that these were being used in many casinos, buried and destroyed by the casinos when found!

Thanks,

Christine & Sheldon Smith
ONENEVADADOLLAR
LM-82/83