Soapy Smith gambling house. Legend has it that above the entrance of the stairway leading upstairs to the gambling games was a sign that read "caveat emptor", Latin for "let the buyer beware". Smith's younger brother, Bascomb Smith, joined the gang and operated a cigar store that was a front for dishonest poker games and other swindles, operating in one of the back rooms. Other operations included fraudulent lottery shops, a "sure-thing" stock exchange, fake watch and bogus diamond auctions, and the sale of stocks in nonexistent businesses. Because of bribes, some of the police officers patrolling the streets would not arrest
The Painter and The Buyer laboriously through the lens of the artist he stares over his shoulder. This is the connoisseur and amateur, as he meets us later in the cycle of Roman antiquarians to Philipp von Stosch. It is uncertain whether it is for the painter, as is often assumed to be a self-portrait of Bruegel, also conceivable is a portrait of Hieronymus Bosch. The Painter and The Buyer The Painter and The Buyer is a 1565 pen and ink on brown paper painting by Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The alternative title is The Artist and The Connoisseur. The painter is thought