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Recognize this antique shop? grin


It's in Arkansas. During our vacation, we wandered over to Little Rock and Hot Springs for a couple of hours of antique shop digging. We didn't find many Nevada items, but enjoyed the hunt anyway. We stopped in one antique store in Hot Springs, and there was a mannequin wearing a dealer's apron from the Southern Club. The shop owner said he used to have the "dealer" set up at a roulette table where he displayed items from the illegal clubs of Arkansas, but he'd sold it all. During the course of the conversation, he told us to go to the shop that's pictured above...said they had chips and gambling items. We put the address in the Garmin (thank goodness for the Garmin, we never would have found half the shops without it!) and hit the road.

We walked into this shop and started looking at chips, dice, cards, etc. that were in a display case. George began talking to the man on duty. He said that he and his dad both collected gambling stuff...they had a little Nevada stuff, but specialized in Arkansas illegals. I asked if he was a member of the CCGTCC, he said he wasn't but his dad is...and I don't remember his dad's name sad (does Bob Kalinowski ring a bell? google said he's one of the shop owners??). He said I could take pictures to post to the chipboard...but he didn't offer to take the items out of the case, and I didn't ask him to. I didn't realize how much glare I was getting from the glass. Sorry about that.

He told us that there's only 4 decks of these cards known to exist, and his dad owns 2 of 'em. The deck was for sale for $250.

Again...I'm really sorry about the poor quality of the pictures sad . I usually take a couple of shots of stuff, to make sure one comes out good....this time all I got was multiple bad shots sad . Couldn't decide if it was worse to post bad pictures or no pictures...so, here they are.

We bought the Fort Lucinda token that's pictured grin


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Recognize this antique shop? grin
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He's not a "current" member...

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