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Ravenswood Ave.  \n-Suite 121-  \nChicago, IL 60613  \nRonald Wohl (1936-2014)  \nRonald Wohl built one of America’s great collections of cheating and gambling artifacts. He was serious to a fault, dogged, and just plain put his time in. He haunted the many gaming supply houses that flourished in the 1960s, buying old gadgets, catalogs, and supplies. He tracked down other collectors and bought and traded with them. He flew to auctions, visited libraries, and scoured the Internet. He issued lists of books and devices he sought. He hit bookstores and flea markets in cities around the world. His perseverance paid off.  \nRonald was an unusually talented fellow. As an academic, he made perfect grades (anA+) in every course. He received a PhD in chemistry and taught at Yale and Rutgers, finally settling in as the director of a research group at Berlex Labs in New Jersey.  \nHis passions were food and magic. In the magic domain, he invented fine card magic—perhaps most accessible through his contributions to Steve Beam’s books—and was a regular at the inner-circle magic conclaves. He also amassed a rare assortment of magic books and prints.  \nBoth his magic and chemistry were aided by an expert knowledge of languages: Ronald was Swiss but truly fluent in English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian. Let’s leave the food domain for another time (he was a gourmet cook and left a library of more than 2,000 cookbooks) .  \nRonald shared his arcane expertise. He was always asking if I wanted a copy of something: “I’m ordering one, I can just as easily order two.” These “somethings” could be fine books found on remainder lists, obscure gambling books in one of many languages, rare books he already had a copy of, or occasionally weird things such as an edition of Pacioli’s De Viribus Quantitatis published by an Italian bank for the purpose of good customer relations.  \nThousands of reproductions of rare books are currently available. In recent years, Ron loved browsing catalogs of  \nrare editions, then snoop around on the Internet and find areproduction for $20. He particularly loved doing this if you had just bought an original for a few hundred dollars. He recently did exactly this to me with Berliner Almanachfür Karten-, Schach-und Pharospieler auf das Jahr 1804. Aside from teasing, if he ordered one for himself, he’d be happy to order a second copy for me. (It takes work, but it’s amazing what’s out there.)  \nIn the gambling realm, Ronald collected everything: crooked dice, marked cards, gaffed roulette wheels, holdouts, prints, paintings, books, catalogues, and miscellaneous gadgets. Many of his treasures are for sale in this catalog.  \nHe also collected people. He became friends with lots of hustlers and manufacturers; he knew everyone who collected. One of many things I learned from Ron is that gun collectors often have a gambling layout and a faro box to help display their favorite pieces.  \nHe not only collected, he literally put his life on the line in the process. Over a 50-year period, Ronald tracked down threecard monte men and secretly photographed them, their shills, and the suckers, too. Broad-tossing crews don’t like unwanted attention and more than once he was (rudely) asked to move along. Eventually, some of his three-card and three-shell pictures saw print in various School for Scoundrels publications.  \nHis last major findings lie unfinished. 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