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Anyone have any idea what these might be or a value? Kind of hard to tell what that mold is.
Yep, looks like md-44, hub mold.I want to say the yellow are the hub mold but honestly, not sure if my memory is correct.
I picked these up on Facebook Marketplace. I figured they were pretty old from the pic. Been looking up a bit of info but that sounds about rightI like the Hub molds, they'd probably be as nice to play with as DISQ. The problem is getting enough of them in different colours to make a playable set, and even the they should probably be milled to take a custom laminated label.
Ballpark, what, 70-80 years old?
Figured it out. The company stopped making them in 1956 so definitely before thatLooks like the 60’s… maybe 70’s
Looks like the 60’s… maybe 70’s
There was a thread about this a while back where someone had info on that mold and it’s whereabouts…looking but can’t find it yet.
Somebody sold a mint barrel of flower molds on eBay recently. Very nice looking - I was hoping to grab them for $30. It sat at like $4 all week, then ended up going for like $150 in the last minute.
Anyone have any idea what these might be or a value? Kind of hard to tell what that mold is.
Great to know thanks!I'm a little late in replying to the OP, but I can provide some more information on those "LAC" hub mold chips. As others have noted, Mason & Co. owned that mold design. They were made first by the United States Playing Card Co., and beginning around 1947 by the Burt Co., which eventually becomes Atlantic Standard Molding (ASM), and Classic Poker Chips (CPC).
The records and the order cards of the Mason Co. have been preserved. Your chips were sold to Sig Solomon, at 16th and Valencia St., San Francisco, California, in 1935. There were originally four colors, yellow, white, red and blue. This comes from The Gaming Table (5th Ed., 2017).
It’s a shame you have to guess… but hey, I remember when I was new.Still guessing they are poker chips......
Also late to the discussion, but as noted by @Colquhoun , the “B” chips are commonly referred to as “Paranoid” chips… that is the name of an old proprietary clay composite material first made by The US Playing Card Company (USPCC) in Cincinnati, OH around 1907 and also later by Burt Co (which eventually became Chipco). The term Paranoids has become a somewhat generic term for all similar chips, kind of like “Kleenex” has for “facial tissue”.
Burt became ASM in the 1980s when it was purchased by Jim Blanchard. I'm fairly sure Burt didn't become Chipco....
http://classicpokerchips.com/aboutus.htm
I don't believe that is correct. I believe that is a misunderstanding which has been propagated by some collectors. "Crest and seal" simply refers to a chip which has a card room's symbol - aka their crest, aka their seal - printed on an inlay. Inlays are usually laminated, but it doesn't make sense to refer to that lamination as a "seal". Some other commenters have suggested that the "seal" is some sort of covering across the entire chip face and not just the inlay, but chips aren't fabricated this way. I think a lot of the early generation of collectors had very little understanding of how chips are manufactured.These chips are also sometimes called Crest & Seal, but technically those chips have a protective layer (seal) over the white inlay (crest) to protect it
I don't believe that is correct. I believe that is a misunderstanding which has been propagated by some collectors. "Crest and seal" simply refers to a chip which has a card room's symbol - aka their crest, aka their seal - printed on an inlay. Inlays are usually laminated, but it doesn't make sense to refer to that lamination as a "seal". Some other commenters have suggested that the "seal" is some sort of covering across the entire chip face and not just the inlay, but chips aren't fabricated this way. I think a lot of the early generation of collectors had very little understanding of how chips are manufactured.
Burt became ASM in the 1980s when it was purchased by Jim Blanchard. I'm fairly sure Burt didn't become Chipco....
http://classicpokerchips.com/aboutus.htm
True, Burt did not become Chipco, but the previous owner of Burt, John Kendall, did start Chipco. 2 separate companies.
I don't believe that is correct. I believe that is a misunderstanding which has been propagated by some collectors. "Crest and seal" simply refers to a chip which has a card room's symbol - aka their crest, aka their seal - printed on an inlay. Inlays are usually laminated, but it doesn't make sense to refer to that lamination as a "seal". Some other commenters have suggested that the "seal" is some sort of covering across the entire chip face and not just the inlay, but chips aren't fabricated this way. I think a lot of the early generation of collectors had very little understanding of how chips are manufactured.