H. C. Evans & Co., Chicago. Manufacturers of High-Class Clubroom Furniture. Sporting Goods, . . . Casino Supplies, Trade Stimulators. Headquarters for Park, Fairground and Carnival Supplies. General Catalog "D"

Chicago. NA. Good. Scarce, with no catalogues from the company coming up on OCLC First Search. N.d., circa 1920. 4to. 22 by 14.5 cm. 64 pp., including cover. H.C. Evans was founded in 1892 and became a top manufacturer of casino equipment, supplies and furnishings. The company sold both honest and crooked equipment, the latter including such things as special dice, special card decks and the like. The company also got into jukeboxes, pinball machines, etc. The company folded in 1955 but pieces of its business continued afterwards for a short time. This catalogue includes various elaborate carnival games such as Walking Charley or Kelly Ball Game, an Auto Speedway, shooting galleries -- all these large installations not practicable in the typical home -- various portable race track games, Mrs. O'Leary's Wash Tub, a pop it in bucket, a geographical flasher and illuminated counter, etc. etc. The variety of such games on offer is immense. Also promoted is a wide variety of roulette wheels and the like, slot machines, penny arcade games, and gambling casino standard game equipment and furniture. Here, too, there are a multitude of choices in such things as crap tables. In the selection of dice, there is celluloid paint offered for the purpose of respotting. Card deck offerings include American Monte cards. As some of these items were probably intended for home users, the catalogue is free of the less wholesome, crooked products that the company also hawked. Still, a novel catalogue full of a lot of novelties. Condition: considerable age toning. Soiling of cover.