Too new to chipping to know anything. Can anyone help me identify these? Seller says they're clay and unused, 13g. 500 count in a case with dice and cards. Was hoping maybe I could get a nice set to label! (All I know is plastic...)
Ceramics tend to be delivered that way too, so not only sluggers.Shrinkwrap around groups of chips is generally a dead giveaway to slugged plastics.
Ceramics tend to be delivered that way too, so not only sluggers.
Be advised that anyone can, and nearly everyone does, say that their chips are clay. The term is meaningless outside of specialized forums like PCF. Here, we use "clay" to mean "compression molded chips made using the formulas and methods that have been in use by a small number of manufacturers for decades, stretching back to the early days of poker chips in the early twentieth century". They're made of plastic, not clay, but historically they have included fine clay minerals as one component of the plastic mixture.Seller says they're clay and unused, 13g.
I would say they are "right" in that they are describing Compressed Clay "style" chips. These are not to be confused with Ceramic "style" chips (which are not made of ceramic). They are attempting to conflate their 100% plastic, injection molded chips with "real" compressed "clay" chips that contain very little (if any) "clay". I think they have succeeded (at least legally) in this conflation.Be advised that anyone can, and nearly everyone does, say that their chips are clay. The term is meaningless outside of specialized forums like PCF. Here, we use "clay" to mean "compression molded chips made using the formulas and methods that have been in use by a small number of manufacturers for decades, stretching back to the early days of poker chips in the early twentieth century". They're made of plastic, not clay, but historically they have included fine clay minerals as one component of the plastic mixture.
But since there's no official standard for what constitutes a "clay" poker chip, the term gets applied as marketing fluff to nearly every type of chip sold to the public, even those that have absolutely nothing in common with the chips that we consider "clay".
So unless the seller is a PCF member or is otherwise a knowledgeable poker chip aficionado and collector, ignore any claims about a chip being clay. They may be right, but usually they're wrong.