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A History of Gambling and Casinos, For Show and For Sale, This Week

Show me a collector and I'll show you a friend. Over the years, these are just a few types of items I've collected or saved: kitchen timers, crystal ashtrays, butcher-scale weights, images of unexpected celebrities appearing together, and a complete set of 1968 Topps baseball cards.

I also have a highly personal collection of poker and casino items: casino chips of Andy Bloch winning rock-paper-scissors and Chris Ferguson winning chip-sculpture events at BARGE, the table felt from the Wynn on which Phil Ivey and Andy Beal played their amazing high-stakes games in February 2007, and World Series of Poker Main Event giveaway items from 2006 and 2007.