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"Misturata" is likely a misspelling of "Misurata". (Misurata see Misratah , Libya.) Misratah or Misurata , city, NW Libya, located in an oasis. A seaport on the Mediterranean Sea. Misratah was "In the News" during the 1910's, with the outbreak of The Tripolitanian (Tripolitan) War (also known as the Italo-Turkish or Turco-Italian War, and in Italy as guerra di Libia, "the Libyan war", and in Turkey as Trablusgarp Savaşı) on September 29, 1911. An Italian landing at Misratah in October, 1911, made little initial headway. The first ever aerial bomb was dropped on Turkish troops during this war, and may have been dropped on the oasis of Misratah. -- Excerpted from Early Twentieth Century Timelines and Wikipedia.

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It certainly looks like a roulette wheel.

The croupier looks creepier ...

An account of a court case at Down Assizes (Freeman's , Wednesday, March 11, 1840) centres around a "fraudulently constructed" roulette table at Downpatrick races, by means of which James Perkins cheated several people "of divers sums of money". Here's a snippet including a description of the dodgy roulette wheel. So roulette at a racecourse wasn't unheard of. BTW later in the account , after a witness was asked if he had played in the tent A pause ensued, which was sufficiently significant to cause the court to be convulsed with laughter, which was joined by the learned judge himself The defence counsel argued that a tent was not a house, so it wasn't covered by legislation concerning gaming houses. The judge sentenced Perkins to 3 months imprisonment and £100 fine, but the sentence was suspended pending a decision from the Court of Queen's Bench.

And in an account of "The Card-Cheating Case at Brighton" (Freeman's Monday, July 26, 1852) a witness says he had played roulette at races before this, and generally lost; he had never heard of anybody that won (a laugh). This suggests that roulette wheels at races (a) were commonplace and (b) fixed

... and in 1862 The plaintiff , on examination, stated that he kept a roulette table at races, and also used "bones" (dice) at races; was last convicted of gambling at Limerick; gave up going to races September last; he went to races with a roulette table for the purpose of opposing parties who had robbed him of £600 ... The jury found for the plaintiff one farthing damages

Description from Catalogue of Photographs and Stereopticon Slides , March 1 to June 1, 1918, : "4246 The Tabue Serves As A Target. United_States marine now in France as part of the American expeditionary forces ready to train his modern weapon upon any German airman who might come within range." Catalogue of Photographs and Stereopticon Slides United States Committee on Public Information. Division of pictures U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918 "Tabue" is probably a misprint for Taube, a WWI airplane: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etrich_Taube

French government CPI photo archive dates this as 3-18-18 with caption "Défense antiaérienne américaine, pouvant faire face aux attaques ennemies. " www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memsmn_fr?ACTION=RETRO...

Art Siegel: Thanks. We will add the full caption next time we update.