Miscellaneous Dice of Robert Eisenstadt

The object at the upper left is a cast iron dice paperweight. There are two green moveable dice between two scottie dogs. Made by Hubley and marked #393 on the bottom. To my surprise, these are very desirable, went for $491.78 on eBay in 1998!.... ....... .... The object at the upper right is an old dice canceller. Marked as made by "MPC" (that's the Mercury Product Company, Chicago)...... ..... ........ The item at the lower left is an original metal die of the old H. C. Edwards Co., NYC, which was used to stamp "New Frontier" and the logo on dice. That is the famous Las Vegas casino.

All of these are glass advertising paperweights with moveable dice inside.... .... .... I have a number of excess ones like those three on the top that I would sell for about $25.00-$35.00 each. They were used as advertising business gifts. Incidentally, the one at the top middle is from the famous El Rancho Vegas, Las Vegas, c. 1940's. It was the first major casino-hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.... ........ ..... The six on the bottom are all from the turn of the century -- have a 1903 patent date on the bottom of most of them. The one with the man's head pictured is from a place in Brooklyn NY: Day Star Hall at 3rd Ave and 54th Street. The one at the lower right says on it "World's Fair, 1915, Wells Fargo Express Co."