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I'll take the whole lot, if not already claimed. PM coming.

About 3000 of your chips were sent to C. A. Tomlinson, the owner of the Frontier Club in Farmersville, CA, between 1945 and 1956. It was a licensed card room until the 1980s. I've just uploaded the order cards to the ChipGuide, as there was a listing for the Frontier Club already, and the cards...

There are T. R. King order cards for your chip. 1100 of the Saigon Horse Shoe chips were ordered in six denominations by William L. Samex, Saigon, Vietnam and were sent to Captain T. S. Taus c/o Air America, MFD 2277, APO San FRan 96307, on 7/17/1967. A different custom die was made for each...

The Burt order card and ledger entry for your chip are posted on the ChipGuide. Your black chip was most likely made in July, 1955. http://cgcm.themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=NYNYHC&v=778388372

Here you go. I think the red Samurai is most similar to the Paulson Dark Red

"Paranoid" is the material that the chips are made out of. It was a proprietary term used by the United States Playing Card Co., who probably made your chips. Although people sometimes loosely use the term "Crest & Seal" to describe this type of chip, I believe that your chips are more...

Can they tell you anything about the origin of these chips? Were they found in North Dakota? The BVR chip is on the ChipGuide as a UFC (unidentified) chip. http://cgcm.themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=UFDIB5&sort=type Curious if they have any information about them. Photo Courtesy of the ChipGuide.

Those chips were originally made by RT Plastics (originally headquartered in Venice, CA and later moved to Las Vegas). They made relatively high quality plastic chips that were sometimes used in licensed card rooms. They were copied by Chinese manufacturers probably by the late 1990s, and the...

Doug Saito sometimes post images from the catalog on The Chip Board. Traditionally, to participate in the auction you had to get a paper copy of the catalog. I don't think PDFs of the catalog are sent out. I took some quick kind of crappy snap shots of some of the other chips in the auction.

I can help you out. Just PM me, if you still need a proxy for this auction.

I will claim Lot 2. 10 red chips and Pidgen Frac. PM coming

Your chip was likely made between 1880 and 1920 by the United States Playing Card Company. The chip design on the chip is considered to be "generic", rather than a custom order chip design, used by a single establishment or client. The design on your chip is one that is less commonly found...

Those are "Super Diamond" plastics chips. I remember them showing up by the early 1990s. Mostly manufactured in China. The large width of the inner band, and the perfectly square diamonds is an easy way to differentiate them from the clay chips.

Oscar, thank you for organizing this. I plan to stop by tomorrow, and look forward to meeting people and trading chips.:tup:

Yes, likely a personal set, but illegals are often non-denominated. Also, the customer's investment in a special monogram is curious. We will likely never know where these chips were used, but it is useful to document where groups or hoards of these types of chips are found. Sometimes with that...

I don't think T.R. King made those chips. They were probably made by either the USPC Co. or the Burt Co. If I had the chips in hand, I might be able to tell you which, as there are slight differences in some of the colors of their chips. For example, in the late 1940s and early 1950s the...

Thanks for sharing that communication with Blanchard. I recall that ASM held onto at least some of the GN house mold cups, as I remember seeing a picture of some of them around the time that American Standard Molding was sold, and there was an attempt to sell some of the mold cups. Interesting...

Nice video. Just to add on to Gmunny. The Burt Co. first made the GN mold. H. C. Edwards ordered the chips (for the GN) from Burt and would have hot stamped the chips that were not inlaid by Burt. On the Classic Poker Chips website, they have a short history of the company (which is descended...

This is a sample chip hot stamped by the Portland Card Company (PCC), which was in Portland, Oregon. The company owned the Square in Circle mold from its inception around 1947 until the company dissolved in the late 1990s.. The last owner of PCC (Harold Goodling) sold the mold back to Atlantic...

I have a couple of those chips. I still can't figure out if they are plastic or composite clay. No injection marks on the chips I have. Maybe slightly better than super diamond chips. Perhaps less desirable, as it is hard to find them in quantity and add on to them...