POTTER & POTTER AUCTION 2015

[TheBadJoker]

Yes, yes I know it is 6 months away but believe me it will be here in the blink of an eye. I have already begun the cataloging process and we have some phenomenal items in both the playing card & gambling category.  Just to get your juices flowing, we have a "Bad Joker" deck and a Hodges Geographical in the playing card category and a set of ivories, a gaffed dealing box and a most unusual card trimmer in the gambling category. The auction will be a two day affair on either the weekend of June 20th or June 27th.  We are not currently looking for any more consignments for this auction but if you have a truly fantastic item we may be able to squeeze it in. There will be a party the Friday before the auction begins so I suggest that you begin making plans to be here.  Have a VERY HEALTHY, HAPPY and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR everyone and I look forward to seeing many of you in 2015.

[torcams]

I'm very excited although my wallet will need the full year to recover from last years auction!

[TheBadJoker]

I will be posting a photo every week or so. Stay tuned!

This is a beautiful wrapper of Claude Burdel (1727-1799). He came from Lyon to Fribourg, to become the founding father of three generations of Burdel-cardmakers in Fribourg, active in town between 1750 and 1799, working at the address "place du grand St. Jean" since 1766.

[TheBadJoker]

A very rare pack from the Holland:

Nullenstien, Lautje van Schotten “Pasquins Windkaart”, Holland, ca. 1720. 51/52 + 2 EC ( lacks 10d), Exc. Engraved and hand colored. This was not the makers name but a mockery and the shop where it was sold was called the “money seeking cock”.  The pack is a satire against the system of John Law, inventor of the banknote, who inspired expeditions to Mississippi and the South Seas that ended in economic failure in 1720. The suckers who bought into this scheme just bought “wind”. This pack contains fifty-one cards and two extras; one represents a rooster with the blazon of John Law of Lawrifton and another inscription: "April Kaart of van Momus Naer of Niewofte Mode". All letters are engraved in black, with essence of the characters in these expeditions. Museo de Naipes Fournier pg. 127, #10.

[torcams]

Any exciting souvenir decks I need to be saving up for???

[52plusjoker]

Any exciting souvenir decks I need to be saving up for???

There were a lot last year and they went very reasonably.

[TheBadJoker]

None at the moment!