This is auction is for Vintage Early Times Whiskey Playing Card and Dice Set and a Vintage Dice Cup not original to the set.

The set originally included a card box, two decks of Early Times Advertising Bridge Size Cards, a pencil and two score pads.  As found one card deck, the dice, the pencil, and the first few score sheets off one pad are missing.  I have replaced the missing deck with mint / sealed (except part of the plastic wrapper is torn off) Trump brand deck with a reproduction of a painting or print of children being dismissed at the end of the day from their one room brick school house.  I replaced the missing dice with a set of 5 vintage ivory colored in excellent condition.

This is one of two vintage whisky advertising actions that were purchased from the same source and are being listing concurrently in separate auctions.  The person I bought the items from told me that these were items from his father's estate.  His father was in the retail liquor business and received many advertising promotion items such as these from the distributors who supplied him.  I was told that the items in these auctions were circa 1960s.

The card box appears to me to be covered in genuine black leather but it is not marked and I cannot say to a 100% certainty that it is genuine leather.  The top is embossed with the four card suit symbols in gold at the four corners of the lid.

The are plastic tabs that can be pulled to easily removed the card decks and dice.  The inside of the lid has a cloth compartment with an expandable elastic top to hold the score pads.  There is also a loop for holding a pencil.  The case is in excellent condition and the snap closure is in good working order and holds the case tightly closed.  The Early Times card deck in in the original box with examplar card of an Early Times bottle.  The box has been opened but the deck is in like-new condition and appears to have never been used.  It is complete with all 52 cards and two jokers.  The faces of the jokers have a nice black and white illustration of an old-time distillery.

I am also including a vintage solid leather dice cup that is not original to the set.  It appears to be quite old and has a number of scuffs and scrapes on the dark brown finish.  It is very well made with heavy stitching.  The cup is 4 1/4" tall and 2 3/4" in diameter.

This is a great vintage collectible for the dice or whisky collector, or just for anyone looking for a high quality poker dice game.

One of the games you can play with these dice is a more conventional poker dice game.  The poker rules involve a player taking successive turns of up to three rolls.  On the first roll the player rolls all five dice.  The player can stop after the first or second roll if he/she has a good hand.  For the second role, the player can sent any of the dice from the first roll aside and roll the remainder or re-roll all five.  For the third roll the player can roll any or all of the dice rolled on the second roll, but not the dice set aside on the first roll.  After each player has a turn, the player with the best poker hand wins the pot and the players ante for another round.

I happen to prefer the Liar's Poker game described below.

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There are a number of games that can be played with these dice, and rules can be found in books and perhaps on the Internet as well. My favorite game, which I spent many evenings playing, during my college days is Liar's Poker Dice. The rules are as follows: A prescribed buy in and per hand ante are agreed upon, e.g. $5.00 buy-in with 25 cent ante per round. A game ending criterion should be agreed upon, e.g. either a set time limit, or when one player has won all of the money. This game is best played with 3 to 5 players. The first player shakes the dice, turns the cup over, and, concealing the dice with both hands, peaks at the hand that was rolled. That player then declares any standard poker hand. The player to the left must either accept the word of the first player or "pull the cup" trying to expose a bluff by the first player. If the first player is caught bluffing, he/she must pay the ante amount to each player. If the first player had a had equal to or better than he/she declared, the player who "pulled the cup" pays the ante to each player, and the next hand begins with player to the left of the player who started the previous hand. If the second player accepts the first player's declaration, the cup is slid to the second player concealing the dice and taking care to move the cup gently so that none of the dice get turned (this is quite easy to do on a smooth surface). The second player peaks at the dice and then takes one of several actions: simply declares a higher hand for the third player to either accept or pull; or after optionally exposing one or more of the dice, shaking the remainder, and then, after peeking at the new role, declaring a higher hand than the previous player. The third player can accept the declaration or pull the cup, and play continues in the same fashion until someone finally pulls the cup. Once dice are outside the cup, if a player has really gotten burned by accepting the call, he/she can choose to put any or all of the exposed dice back in the cup and reroll them along with the ones still in the cup. This is a great free-for-all game, and I have played it for hours at a time without tiring of the game. As long as there are no pre-arranged agreements, anything goes with respect to "selling your hand". For example, in a three person game, let's say the person to your right is on a winning streak. You can try to cajole the player to your left into believing you have a much better hand than you have just declared and that you are giving him/her a "free ride" in order to burn the big winner. Are you trying to burn the big winner or simply trying to "sell a loser"? It will take all of the next player's poker skill to make the right call.......

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