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Card Game "Cheater" Cobalt Blue Glasses Pair [143029]

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Casino and Gambling Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 600.00 USD
Card Game  Cheater  Cobalt Blue Glasses Pair [143029]
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Two blue lens glasses, circa 1870 -1900+/-. One with lens1 7/8" diameter, the other 1 3/8" diameter. From the Shirley Bovis Tombstone (Private) Cowboy Museum. Some gaming historians have claimed that cobalt blue lens glasses of the pre-prohibition period were used by card game sharps to read semi-invisible marks on cards. We were unable to confirm this. Interestingly, however, these dark cobalt blue lens glasses are indeed rare as hens teeth, so there may be something to it. We just cant prove it.

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