Bidspirit auction | Mahogany Treen Traveling Roulette Wheel

Mahogany Treen Traveling Roulette Wheel - Diameter: 4 inches. This antique traveling parlor game is a mahogany-turned roulette wheel compendium. The set features a circular mahogany box with a tiered, domed lid, a central spindle-mounted spinning wheel, and two steel ball bearings. The exterior of the lid is designed with a central aperture for the spindle, a smaller secondary aperture for introducing the ball, and a turned wooden knob. The interior contains a spinning wheel partitioned into sixteen compartments, finished with alternating red and black segments and gilded numerals. The numbering sequence includes 00 and digits from 2 to 16 in a non-sequential arrangement. The center of the wheel is decorated with a gilded foliate and scrollwork border. The base of the mahogany bowl features a central metal pin upon which the wheel rotates. The underside of the lid bears a struck metal mark with large capital letters reading AM and directly below in smaller characters STEREOTYPE. The underside of the spinning wheel is hand-marked in black ink with the characters 38A. 75 inches.