For Sale $1 each sale - part 3 (1 Viewer)

$1 each plus postage. Must take at least 5. I will be going through things until the 30th, then I will ship in the 31st.

 

[upNdown]

If those red and white 312s are crystal palace $5's, I'll take all of them.

 

[SpaceMonkey420]

Diamond Jim’s please.

 

[jpietrella]

I will take the yellow Hi Desert, as well as all the spotted THCs in picture 2, 2nd and 3rd rows.

 

[SpaceMonkey420]

Both hustlers. Club one. Winners circle.

 

[CrazyEddie]

All the River Palace large greek keys. Harrah's inlaid large greek key. "SS" large greek key.

Whatever this blue large greek key is:

This chain mold zig-zag mold? whatever it is, plus any others like it:

This T-mold, plus any others like it:

This golden nugget house mold, plus any others like it:

This mold, plus any others like it:

This small greek key, plus any others like it:

This Noble Games, plus any others like it:

This Langworthy, plus any others like it:

The Crystal Park $1 (all of them, if there's more than one):

All of these:

This:

The black TAZ TR Kings:

This:

Please. Thanks!

 

[Jeff in Iowa]

I will claim the the yellow square in circle chip with the unusual triangular hot stamp on it. Its in the third scan from the top.

Thanks!

 

[jpietrella]

you can also add the red spotted $5 hot stamped THCs to my list. They're directly to the left of the yellow Hi Desert.

 

[CrazyEddie]

I will claim the the yellow square in circle chip with the unusual triangular hot stamp on it.

... I was so busy looking at molds I completely missed that hotstamp! Nice pick-up.

@JWC any chance you could post a close-up of that chip? I'm curious to get a better look at it.

 

[JWC]

... I was so busy looking at molds I completely missed that hotstamp! Nice pick-up.

@JWC any chance you could post a close-up of that chip? I'm curious to get a better look at it.

 

[duffman]

Horseshoe Cleveland $1, Pioneer Club $1's (all), Ambassador Casino $5's (all, if they haven't been claimed already) & the blue King City scrown. Add to the pile please. Thanks.

 

[FordPickup92]

John is that bakelite with the horse and rider in the bottom middle of the 3rd scan spoken for?

 

[Jeff in Iowa]

I would also like to claim this purple chip in the third photo;

If still available, please add it to my pile. Thanks.

 

[Jeff in Iowa]

I would also like to claim this curious "fiber" (?) chip:

And the blue lucky elephant:

Please add to the overflowing pile.

 

[CrazyEddie]

The piles do have a way of overflowing, don't they?

 

[CrazyEddie]

I would also like to claim this curious "fiber" (?) chip

John put a different but apparently related chip in my pile from an earlier auction:

If you know or learn anything about these chips, please share!

 

[Jeff in Iowa]

Thank you for the clearer image. Looking that up, I see that it is an advertising chip from the Spaulding Fibre Company of Tonawana New York. They made wire insulation among other things.

I feel like it might be from the turn of the century, but I really don't know much about this type of chip.

 

[CrazyEddie]

Okay, I found something!

The one side of your chip appears to say "Spaulding Fibre Company" and the one side of my chip appears to say "Armite Spauldite" with the same "Fibre" logo.

Google turns up quite a bit of info about the Spaulding Fibre Company. Armite and Spauldite were two materials that they manufactured; Spauldite is a phenolic resin which is similar to Bakelite, and Armite is a type of "fishpaper", and fishpaper is "a durable, flexible, electrical insulator that’s made of vulcanized fiber and used with motor windings and for gasket insulation."

Looks like they had some advertising chips made. Worthpoint shows a number of past ebay auctions for them. Here's a few entries, but there's others too:

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/57-vintage-spaulding-fibre-co-armite-1822145348
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-vintage-poker-chip-set-holder-1815146373
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1900-tonawanda-ny-york-bakelite-406829342

Given that they manufactured Bakelite (under a different trademark), I'd be curious to know whether these chips are in fact Bakelite or were made by a company like USPCC or Burt out of "clay composition".

 

[Neilimixam]

Hi, its B&G chips ?

 

[CrazyEddie]

Google turns up quite a bit of info about the Spaulding Fibre Company. Armite and Spauldite were two materials that they manufactured; Spauldite is a phenolic resin which is similar to Bakelite, and Armite is a type of "fishpaper", and fishpaper is "a durable, flexible, electrical insulator that’s made of vulcanized fiber and used with motor windings and for gasket insulation."

Looks like they had some advertising chips made.

Given that they manufactured Bakelite (under a different trademark), I'd be curious to know whether these chips are in fact Bakelite or were made by a company like USPCC or Burt out of "clay composition".

Now that my giant pile of John's chips have arrived and I got to hold the Spaulding Fibre chip in my hands, I have to say it's completely unlike any other chip in my collection. It's very thin and light. The rolling edge is rough, unfinished, and fibrous. It appears to be stamped out of a thin sheet rather than molded, with the design stamped rather than engraved or embossed.

My strong presumption now is that Spaulding Fibre manufactured these chips themselves rather than using a third party like USPCC or Burt, and that the chip is made out of "Armite" aka "fishpaper" aka vulcanized fiber (see wikipedia). Fishpaper is made out of cotton fibers treated with a zinc chloride solution and pressed together; the solution makes the fibers expand and bond with each other, resulting in a material which is tough and hard, flexible when thin, and moldable with steam and pressure when thick.

It looks like these chips were simply stamped out of Armite sheets approximately 1/16" thick. They probably served as an excellent promotional product for Spaulding, showing off the material being advertised itself. I'm pretty confident they're not made out of Spauldite aka phenolic resin aka Bakelite. Bakelite chips are either molded or cast and machined, and these chips are stamped; phenolic resin wouldn't lend itself to stamping.

I'm glad I could add this interesting chip to my collection! Thanks, @JWC !