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Round Table Roulette. Approximately 14 ?? diameter. Three-piece roulette wheel, including: a wooden, painted, circular base with central metal spike to insert in bottom hole of wooden wheel. Together with a wooden roulette wheel with numbers 1 through 36, 0 and 00; numbers painted in white on alternating grounds of black and red (0 and 00 painted on green background). Numbers form the outer band of the wheel; inside the number band are raised, separated compartments for catching the ball. Compartments are lined on the bottom with velvet of the corresponding color; the center of the wheel has a faux wood grained finish and is sloped to a peak in the center. The wheel is edged in 1 ?? painted wood band, red with black edging. The bottom center of the wheel is fitted with a metal receptacle for the base spike - this is the spinning mechanism for the wheel. Together with the original metal lid: a small funnel-shaped top where the roulette ball is dropped into the lid; top of lid has seven black painted diamond-shapes radiating from the center; there is a green thick line painted above the rolled edge of the top where the rivets attach the inside frame of the lid; on the underside of the lid are 38 holes of ?? diameter around the circumference. Wheel could be gaffed by discreetly filling the holes with corks. See Time/Life book on Gambling, p. 175. (Note: that book attributes wheel to Evans in 1909 catalog).