Something up your sleeve: Spring-loaded spare card holder
A perennial favorite with dishonest players: Ink set for marking
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It was popular
with cheaters!
A
"knucklebuster"
could be used in two ways. It was a gun with no barrel, which meant that
to obtain any degree of accuracy, it had to be shot at point-blank range.
Its other use, as the name implies, was as a bludgeon. Either way, anyone
who resorted to using one of these things was well-advised to have a horse
waiting.
The "knucklebuster" is one of many fascinating artifacts on
display at the Nevada Museum of Gambling in Virginia
City, Nevada.
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