Will & Finck Nickel Plated Gaffed Faro Dealing Box. San Francisco, ca. 1890. Marked “Will & Finck, S.F. CAL #562.” Heavy nickel-plating on this mechanically precise gaffed dealing box. Sand-tell second card. Bottom button allows spring gravity to lock out slides. Right spring plate with gravity lock-up. Housed in stitched leather box. Display cards included. 4 x 3 1/4”. Excellent. For illustrated descriptions of how gaffed dealing boxes operate, see Maskelyne’s “Sharps & Flats” (Longman, Green & Co., London, 1894), lot 100 in this sale.
Will & Finck Nickel Plated Gaffed Faro Dealing Box. San Francisco, ca. 1890. Marked “Will & Finck, S.F. CAL #562.” Heavy nickel-plating on this mechanically precise gaffed dealing box. Sand-tell second card. Bottom button allows spring gravity to lock out slides. Right spring plate with gravity lock-up. Housed in stitched leather box. Display cards included. 4 x 3 1/4”. Excellent. For illustrated descriptions of how gaffed dealing boxes operate, see Maskelyne’s “Sharps & Flats” (Longman, Green & Co., London, 1894), lot 100 in this sale.
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