No, not crayons! But the Chinese, wooden stylus markers used by the KENO booth person to copy your crayon marked KENO sheets to your official KENO ticket.

I have an early recollection of these markers when my family visited Las Vegas in the late 60's, probably around 1967. We drove from Los Angeles to Death Valley and when we had no over-night plans (someone forgot to make motel reservations) we detoured to Las Vegas!

Got a room at the relatively new Four Queens Hotel and Casino and spent 2 days there. Being too young to play and prohibited from the casino area, I recall spending many hours inside the Four Queens in a loft/balcony area that overlooked the casino floor and was directly in front of the KENO booth. I watched the KENO runners converge on the booth and the writers were always very busy transcribing KENO tickets. Duplicating the X's from the customer's ticket onto the house tickets with the black stylus that would be dipped into an ink well to apply a distinctive swosh on each of the numbers picked.

Well, that is about all I can recall about the stylus and now I am insearch of examples of these Chinese-based writing tools.

My basic questions are:

Does anyone here have a first-hand use of these markers? (No pun intended.)

As I recall, they were black in color and I could not tell (from a distance) if the inking part was a brush or just wood. Anyone know?

Lastly, were these markers somehow marked (hot-stamped like a pencil) with a casino name?

Any information at this point would be very helpful!

Thank you in advance!

Jim