Before I put this on eBay, I'll offer this game here. ~ It is complete.* ~ $40 plus actual postage (my only other one for sale cost $14 priority mail to ship) ~ Return privileges ~ PayPal OK.

THE EMBOSSING COMPANY: The 1937 game "Frisko" was made by the old The Embossing Company, Albany NY (1870-1955, when it was sold to Halsem Products Co, Chicago). The company has an interesting history.

The company was founded by John Wesley Hyatt (1837-1920), the famous American inventor and manufacturer who received several hundred patents over his lifetime. His most notable accomplishment was inventing and patenting celluloid, an offshoot of the search to find a suitable substitute for ivory in billiard balls. Celluloid had many commercial uses. Hyatt formed such companies as the Albany Billiard Ball Company, the Albany Dental Plate Company, and eventually the Celluloid Manufacturing Company in Newark NJ in 1873.

The Embossing Company was famous for its myriad, mostly wood products, many of them toys and teaching aids for children. The company was most famous for its building blocks (American Logs) and alphabet blocks, but made many dominoes editions, as well as checkers, building and design sets, "Bottoms Up", "Flappers Fortunes", backgammon, mah jongg and chess.

FRISKO: Frisko is known as "The Roaring Game of the Barbary Coast" --- a simple betting game using three dice and wooden "chits" numbered 1 through 6, as well as "Low/High" and "Odd/Even". …. One person plays the "Frisker" (dice roller) while all of the other players bet on the outcome of the roll. Players can bet on individual numbers appearing (1 through 6), an Odd or Even combined total, a Low total (10 or under), or a High total (11 or higher). Betting is done with wooden chips which are purchased ahead of time. … Frisker pays even money for all successful bets and gets to keep all others. After ten throws, the roll of the Frisker is passed to the next player. The game's instructions are printed on the underside of the lid of the box. (This paragraph is from http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18106/frisko . That independent hobby game site gave the game a $50 fair market value, by the way. )

*CONDITION: used, but good decent condition. *The three dice you will be getting are modern, but the original dice in the game were regular ordinary dice, nothing special.

CHIPS: newly coded: Frisko-PY-EO -- one 7/8th inch wood chip used for betting in the "Frisko" game, copyright 1937. The chip has "Frisko" on one side and a picture of a hobby horse on the reverse. It will be coded in the Advertising Products category -- Frisko-PY-EO.

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Robert