Sold for:
$900
$900
Royal Poker Set. Detroit: Brown Brothers, ca. 1900. Brown Brothers, a tobacco distributor and manufacturer, issued this set as a giveaway, perhaps as a Christmas gift to preferred customers. Consisting of 103 five-dollar German silver chips, 51 ten-dollar brass chips and 45 twenty-five dollar copper chips. The lid of the box and the chips also advertise “La Flor De Fontella" five-cent cigars. The deck is English and probably added later. Complete, but lid cracked, one of the wood dividers missing. The very set depicted in Seymour's Antique Gambling Chips (49). Very good.*
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-05-21
