Lot 140 - Antique Chinese Portable Opium Scale in Folding Wooden Case with Bone Beam and Brass Pan, Labeled Lin Baocheng Lijin, 10" L 4108-favs a deer strapped to the

a deer strapped to the roof of a sedan

"Card Manipulations" by Jean Hugard with diagrams and instructions for fundamental sleight-of-hand techniques

The frame measures 7

humorous undertones and period comic captions including “I’m On to Your Curves

The display card shows wear at the corners and lower edges

Lot 140 - Antique Chinese Portable Opium Scale in Folding Wooden Case with Bone Beam and Brass Pan, Labeled Lin Baocheng Lijin, 10" L 4108-favs a deer strapped to theAntique Chinese portable opium scale housed in a hinged folding wooden case. The scale features a bone beam with a brass weighing pan set into a recessed well at one end, with colored thread suspension lines. A paper label on the cover is printed with Chinese characters reading "Lin Baocheng Lijin," a maker or shop name, with a small red seal mark below. A second smaller label with additional characters is affixed to the body near the pan well.