what in the world is that this is a sort of a gambling cheat
card trimmer all right they would put the card in there and trim it down and when they would
deal they would know what to feel for so they would have an idea of what they were dealing
okay i thought it was just you're really into precision gift wrapping ah no
i'm here at the pawn shop today to sell my gambling cheat card trimmer i picked it up
in an antique shop with my folks some decades ago and it's been sitting on our coffee table
for many years and when people come over to it invariably they ask about it and it strikes up
a conversation my wife's tired of being around the house so i'm hoping to solve for 1500 today
i've never seen anything like this so i'm assuming these were probably made after 1920.
so this was used by a magician or someone cheating at cards i can't think of any
other use for it neither can i if you have cards that feel a certain way in your hand
you can just go blah blah blah blah here and just go like ace of spades so if you
set this to the right measurement of a card you make this little angle put it in there and
exactly now there's a little angle on the side of that card i mean just a little micro amount is
enough when you're a very experienced magician you can go through the deck and find the ace of spades
every time and people can go whoa so how much you want for it looking for fifteen hundred dollars
okay tell you the truth i have no idea i have a buddy who is a magician who collects this kind of
stuff and would probably know everything there is to know about this so if you can hang out a little
bit i'll give them a call and have to come down take a look at it okay sounds great i'll be right
back i would welcome an expert's opinion on this i think it would help figure out the real value
and maybe we can strike a deal so here we go the cheating slash magic machine ah you think magic's
cheating i see this is pretty cool um this looks like it was 1930s 1950s you can cheat pretty well
with these machines they're pretty phenomenal it's basically like a big paper cutter it trims a card
just enough so literally when you run your finger down the outside of it it'll stop
exactly on the card that you want chosen there's a stamp on here and it says the ball brothers
they mainly made jars but they also had a metal manufacturing company so they'd make one-offs
of all sorts of things so do you mind if i use this try it no please go ahead i brought a deck
of cards to me because every magician always has a deck of cards with them let's use the ace
and this obviously slides to the left let's go right to the edge here
you don't really take much off you really take just a really slender amount off
there see let's put that right in your hair if i drop this in the pack somewhere but if i
go like this i run my finger right down the edge i should come right to your cards if you like this
you go all the way down that should be the ace of spades isn't that great try it seriously all right
it's just a feeling all right don't blow it right feel it just feel it there we go there you go see
there you go pretty much anyways that's how this works in the old days with this device you and
i could maybe go clean up las vegas back in the early 1900s very simple to a single deck nobody
really knew about cheating but now it's very hard because you know these seven eight decks and it's
it's a different game but this is a very cool item so how much you think it's worth so you know for
this device the condition of it and you know the demand that it's in i would say 750 well thanks
man thank you very much thank you sir thank you good luck all right so what's best price on it
uh 12.50 no i got like 450 bucks on it about 600.
we got the cards if i get the ace of spades we get it for 450.
uh i'll go 450 that's best i can go on it make it 500 and we're done um
i'll go 475 bucks only because my wife doesn't want me to come home with it
sounds like a deal okay i'll meet you right over there we'll do some paperwork okay
or when you just need to take a little off the top not that i've done that in a long time
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