SOLD Antique Roulette Set with Matching Lamers - 2100 Chips - price dropped again! (1 Viewer)

[Brookston]

I'm selling my beloved set of roulette chips in order to purchase a, hopefully, more beloved set.

Hoping to get $1100 $1,000 $950 plus shipping. PayPal FF.

These were used in a Chicago Hotel sometime in the first half of the century. I wish I had more information about them, but that's all that I know. I have most of the original boxes, although T.R. King boxes were substituted for 300 of the chips. They were sold by Mason & Co. Also included are a matched set of lamers and extra chips in case of loss or breakage. The Caesars Palace layout is not included.

For being around 100 years old, they are in fantastic condition. Very few flea bites and they stack like bricks. The colors are really vibrant too, the yellow and blues especially "pop" in person. The pink ones my 6 year old niece insists on using seem to be the luckiest color.

I stumbled upon the table and wheel that I believe they went with, you can see it in this youtube video:

Thanks for looking!

 

[Potsie1]

I love these. Glws!

 

[mike32]

These are very cool. I bet ultimately they were made by the company that became ASM (Portland I think).

 

[allforcharity]

Nice! GLWS!

 

[Johnblue]

That’s awesome! All Capone’s chips.

 

[Denali]

I'm in for the lammers if you split.

 

[Johnblue]

I don’t understand how the lamers work. Are they all different demons per color, or is each color specific to that denom, or am I just way off...

Are they “color ups”

My guess is each color has every denomination, so no cash or high denom cash chips need ever hit the table.

 

[Zmasterben]

I'm in for the lammers if you split.

Yeah, the chips are nice but I had my eyes on the lammers instead. Nice ones are not easy to come by at all.

 

[allforcharity]

I don’t understand how the lamers work. Are they all different demons per color, or is each color specific to that denom, or am I just way off...

Are they “color ups”

Each roulette player at the table plays with their own colour chips, and defines their own stakes. The lammers are used to indicate how much 1 chip of that colour is worth, based upon the player's buy-in at the table.

For example, I go to the roulette table and say "I want 100 chips worth $10 each." I hand over $1000, and the dealer gives me 100 blue chips. He keeps one blue chip and places a $10 lammer on it. When it's time to cash out, I exchange my roulette chips for other, denominated chips based on the lammer value.

 

[Denali]

I don’t understand how the lamers work. Are they all different demons per color, or is each color specific to that denom, or am I just way off...

Are they “color ups”

My guess is each color has every denomination, so no cash or high denom cash chips need ever hit the table.

Just different values to place on the generic roulette chips. If you want each roulette chip to have a certain value, the dealer places your chip color in a special rack or on the edge of the roulette wheel and "marks" your chip with that value using the appropriate lammer denom.

 

[Brookston]

Each roulette player at the table plays with their own colour chips, and defines their own stakes. The lammers are used to indicate how much 1 chip of that colour is worth, based upon the player's buy-in at the table.

For example, I go to the roulette table and say "I want 100 chips worth $10 each." I hand over $1000, and the dealer gives me 100 blue chips. He keeps one blue chip and places a $10 lammer on it. When it's time to cash out, I exchange my roulette chips for other, denominated chips based on the lammer value.

Basically correct, just adding that the lamer chosen is usually the value of a stack of 20 chips. So if you were playing each chip was a dollar, the dealer would place a 20 on top of your color chip.

 

[Brookston]

Blumpkin errr . . . Bump

 

[Mike mac]

Let’s see a picture of that wheel !!!

 

[ovo]

wow, I want to know more about the Caesars table

 

[Brookston]

wow, I want to know more about the Caesars table

I found it at an estate sale. Apparently the gentleman I bought it from was walking back to his room at 4 a.m. when he saw the floor personal changing out all the roulette felts. He walked over and they gave him the used one for free. He took it home and had it framed. There's a little plaque on it that reads:

Roulette Table #6
Caesars Palace Las Vegas, Nevada
March, 24 1994

I take it down and use it for roulette at my house now and again, otherwise it sits on the wall.

 

[Brookston]

Bump - Lowered Price

 

[Denali]

Still interested in the lammers if split.

 

[Brookston]

bump

 

[Brookston]

Bump - price dropped even more

 

[Brookston]

Slump

 

[Brookston]

DUMP

 

[Brookston]

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