Potter and Potter Auctions: Ante Up: Gambling Memorabilia
Auction Reports
Auction Name | Ante Up: Gambling Memorabilia | Total Sales (USD) | 144,837.75 |
Auction Date | January 30, 2021 - January 30, 2021 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 94,450.00 |
Sale Number | #1108 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 155,750.00 |
Total Lots | 318 | ||
Sold Lots | 311 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 95,285.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 97.80% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 157,175.00 |
Unsold Lots | 7 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 92.15% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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13 | Erdnase, S.W. | The Expert at the Card Table. |
1902 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 11,875.00 |
289 | Brick (12 Packs) of Jerry’s Nugget Playing Cards. |
1980s. | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 4,080.00 | |
39 | [Poker] Poker Chips Magazine Complete File. |
1896 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 3,840.00 | |
511 | (Movies - Gambling) Massive Lobby Card Collection: Gambling in Film. |
ca. 1910s-2000s (bulk 1940s-60s) | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,120.00 | |
32 | Meyer, Joseph E. | Protection. The Sealed Book. |
1908 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,640.00 |
274 | Hard-A-Port Cut Plug Tobacco Insert Playing Cards. |
ca. 1890 | USD 500.00 - 750.00 | USD 2,500.00 | |
233 | Popish Plot Playing Cards. |
ca. 1679 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 2,280.00 | |
264 | J.C. Cotta Classical Antiquity Transformation Playing Cards. |
1806 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,250.00 | |
116 | [U.S. Civil War – Confederacy] Goodall & Son Confederate States of America Playing Cards. |
ca. 1864 | USD 900.00 - 1,300.00 | USD 2,125.00 | |
115 | Unrecorded Civil War Era American Playing Cards. |
ca. 1860s. | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 1,875.00 | |
270 | The Comic Playing Cards of Fortune. |
1877 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,800.00 | |
275 | Snipe Plug Cut Tobacco Insert Playing Cards. |
ca. 1887 | USD 500.00 - 750.00 | USD 1,800.00 | |
200 | Philippine Souvenir Playing Cards. |
1904 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 1,625.00 | |
25 | Green, Jonathan H. | Gambling Unmasked! Or, the Personal Experience of the Reformed Gambler. |
1844 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,440.00 |
10 | Devol, George H. | Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi. |
1887 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,320.00 |
109 | [Pulps] Easy Money. How It’s Made…How It’s Lost. |
1936 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,250.00 | |
266 | Grandebes “Cartes a Rire” Jeu de Journaux Transformation Playing Cards. |
ca. 1819 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,250.00 | |
117 | [U.S. Civil War – Union] Benj. W. Hitchcock Union Playing Cards. |
1863 | USD 900.00 - 1,300.00 | USD 1,200.00 | |
221 | Ludlow & Co. Patent Knight’s Cards & T. Wheeler Playing Cards. |
ca. 1806 | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 1,200.00 | |
53 | [Poker] Smith, R.A. | Poker to Win. |
1925 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 1,140.00 |
240 | Andreas Benedict Gobl Tarock Playing Cards. |
ca. 1780s/90s. | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 1,140.00 | |
21 | Green, J[onathan] H[arrington]. | The Secret Band of Brothers; or, the American Outlaws. |
1848 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,080.00 |
163 | Card Fabrique Euchre Playing Cards. |
ca. 1880 | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,062.50 | |
276 | Lot of 369 Miscellaneous Tobacco Insert Beauties Playing Cards. |
Circa 1890 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,062.50 | |
6 | Cotton, Charles. | The Compleat Gamester; or Instructions How to Play at all manner of usual, and most Gentile Games. |
1709 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,020.00 |