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SHEET MUSIC COVERS,
MOST OF WHICH I DON'T OWN
(I regret the racial stereotypes on some of the covers
on this and the prior page, but they are about 100 years old)
Note: I collect and buy Sheet Music with gambling and playing card
images.
I can email or snail mail you a list of the approximately 90 pieces
I own,
thus letting you know what I need.
1905 -- Actually, I own this
one now.
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1869 -- Actually, I just
acquired this in April 2006. Same graphics, but my copy is Published
by Edward M. Read, Burlington, Vt.
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7 COME 11 "COME A HOPPIN" JUST RAG sheet music. Composed
by Paul J. Deitsch.
Copyright 1912. Published by Sandstrom Music Co.
of Warren, Pennsylvania.
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"Deuces Wild Rag"
1922 (Published In St.Louis,MO) Instrumental By Hurbert Bauersachs.
I own it.
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DON'T PLAY NUMBERS,
Black illustrated sheet music by Chas Weiss, copyright MCMXXXVI
(1936) -- I do own this one.
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Original
Song Hit! "I’ve got the Blues" by Lew Berk -- copyright 1916. I
own it.
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Scarce - Playing Card Design Sheet Music - 1909.
I don't own this. In August 2006, I came in second in
eBay auction. Went for $44.00.
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1905 sheet music --
went for $154 on eBay in February 2007. Not mine... ...... ....
From Wikipedia: The Numbers Game or Policy Racket is an
illegal lottery played mostly in poor neighborhoods in U.S. cities, wherein
the bettor attempts to pick three or four digits to match those that will
be randomly drawn the following day. The gambler places his or her bet
with a bookie
at a tavern, or other semi-private place that acts as a betting parlor. A
runner carries the money and betting slips between the betting parlors
and the headquarters, called a "numbers bank" or "policy bank". The name
"policy" is from a similarity to cheap insurance, both seen as a gamble
on the future.
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This is another one I
bid on, came in second. It went for $110 on eBay, October 2007.
Happy Blues; Words by Frank J. Purdy; Music by Chas. V. Bates; Victor
Music Pub. Co., 1923; Song is about Rufus Rastus Johnson Jones winning the
high-priced blue poker chips (the reds and whites are just tip change).
Fun lyrics.
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Wow! Went for $371 on ebay in March 2009. I bid about $50.
Seben
Come Eleben, 1899 (W.J. Bay) 2/4 rag/2-step piano solo, large format,
published by S. Brainard's Sons, NYC. Four dice tumble out of a
dice cup.
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Policy Sam, 1899 (Joseph
Gioscia) 2/4 cake walk/2-step piano solo, large format, published by Harms,
NYC. Starmer did this great cover, Sam is considering the numbers
3, 11, 33 for his bet. I paid $35 for this -- eBay, Jan 2009.
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1890s VICTORIAN SHEET MUSIC
THE ROAD TO RUIN, CHAS GODFREY, F BOWYER, GEO le BRUNN, LITH = HG BANKS,
complete/music ... ... .... This went for about $100 on eBay, May 2009
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"This is an original 1920
piece of sheet music entitled "Read 'Em And Weep" with a Black Face Black
Americana dice game gambling cover photo from the Broadhurst theatre play
"Come Seven".It measures 9 and 1/2 inches by 12 inches,has 4 pages including
the covers and has a 3 inch crease in the top right corner,a small tear
on the top edge,and a faint stain and music store stamp in the bottom right
corner.The music is by Walter Haenschen,the words by Al.Bernard and publication
by the Triangle Music Co of New York.," per eBay seller.
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King Crap by Lee Orean
Smith. Not mine.
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The Winner A Spade Flush
by J. W. Klein Smith. Not mine.
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