GUEST: Well, it's been in my family ever since I can remember. My grandparents and great-grandparents had a lot of antiques, and it's one of the things that I was fortunate enough to get. My brother it told me it might have been something that was used back on the trains for gambling.
APPRAISER: It's a traveling gambling wheel.
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: And probably taken by the con man, around to the bars in the trains and wherever he could get some people to hustle them out of money. I don't know the calculating the odds, but I'm pretty sure they're pretty much in favor of the house. I think it's right around 1900, 1899, and it was made in Chicago. Chicago was where most of the really great gambling equipment was made. I've never seen this maker, which is kind of interesting. And the condition is really, really good for the age of it. I think at auction, it should certainly bring in the $1,500 range.
GUEST: Really?
APPRAISER: We'll just give it a spin, and...
GUEST: Yeah.
APPRAISER: Round and round she goes, where it stops, nobody knows.
GUEST: There you go.
