Has anyone ever owned or even seen a Penn Specialty (Allentown, PA) gambling supply catalog? If so, I would like to know, and I would be very interested in buying it or even just buying a scan/photos of the catalog.

Howard Herz in his 1985 gaming chip guide reproduces some pages from what he identifies as being from a Penn Specialty catalog. I've looked through dozens of Potter and Potter and other auction records for old gambling catalogs, and I can find no record of a Penn Specialty catalog ever having come up for auction. I think these pages might in fact be mislabeled pages of a Portland Card Co. catalog or more likely a Robin Specialties (Portland, OR) catalog, as the name would be easy to confuse. Robin Specialties had a close relationship to the Portland Card Co., and their catalog was nearly identical. Below is a page from Herz labeled as "Penn Specialty".

Do you think this is a mistake or do you think that there is a very rare Penn Specialty catalog out there?

The reason I ask is that I recently was able to figure out, with the help of David Spragg, who the original owner of the Penn Specialty Co. was and I was able to track down a grandson of the original owner. We spoke on the phone. He remembered his grandfather's business, but did not remember his grandfather as having a catalog. I was going to send him and other family members the catalog pages reproduced from the Herz book, but I did not want to do that if it was a complete red herring.

Any help in relation to that catalog would be appreciated.