1920 mother of pearl chips from "El casino de la selva" (1 Viewer)

[rodgarfis]

Hello my name is Rodrigo Garcia, I just wanted to share a gaming collection and maybe get some more information of any of you and share what I know of these collection.

This is a set of 1920 mother of pearl chips and 2 roulettes one standing and 2 horizontal. They use to belong to the Casino de la Selva located in Cuernavaca Morelos Mexico. The Casino was owned by my great grand father and he closed it up in 1936 when gambling was prohibited in Mexico since then this items were kept in storage by my family. The Casino de la Selva was famous because of its arquitecture and for having painted murals of famous muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros it was demolished in the 1990's.

I believe the chips are French and they were brought by my great grand father to Mexico.
Have you seen before such a large collection of chips? Do you believe to be more valuable as a collection or as individual chips could go?

Thanks you for your time if anybody is interested in continue talking about this collection I will be happy to do so.

Have a nice day.

 

[cpiaaq]

Nice collection! Really incredible these are still in the family! What a wonderful heirloom. Those are very nice MoP chips, most I've seen are plain. I would agree they are of French origin. I can't help with value, other than to tell you I don't see MoP chips traded (or used) much if ever. Once in a while I see a plain chipset on eBay.

The vertical roulette is a cool oddity! Thank you for sharing

edit: I'll add that a roulette wheel like yours, a made-for-a-real-casino HC Evans, sells in the $3000-$4000 range. Bad condition closer to $1000. There are a couple on eBay now, unsold, at $4200 and $4500.

 

[BarrieJ3]

That is awesome! Pictures online are magnificent. Hopefully someone here has some information to share, I'm interesting to see what prices these would be around.

Any idea around a total breakdown/count for everything?

 

[Colquhoun]

Very beautiful! I would try to get them appraised as soon as you can, and get good insurance! You have such a one-of-kind collection.

 

[allforcharity]

Hello and welcome!

Beautiful antiques! I think the mother of pearl chips should stay together.

 

[Chipenhagen]

Fantastic set. It would be a shame to split them, with their known history and even a fitting piece of furniture.

 

[charitycase]

Wow, awesome images.
I was searching for a set of these early-on.
Very cool to see them in large quantities.
Welcome to the forum.