Auction Find (1 Viewer)

[woog30]

A long time buddy of mine, none poker player, goes to alot of auctions looking for antiques. Almost 2 months ago he let me know that there was a large poker chip lot coming up for auction at one his regular auctions. That was all the details he had. On Friday there was preview for the Saturday auction. I went and found 1960 Paulson THC chips shaped inlay chips from a casino that I was unfamiliar with. I came home and searched the name on Chip Guide. What I found out was that it was local travelling "Charity" casino from Southern Ontario Canada, that travelled from city to city offering blackjack and 5/10 limit poker. I confirmed with @SeekTheGrail who played a lot poker in the 90's and @moose who played blackjack in the charity casino's, both remember playing with this company. Based on the offerings at casino, it explains why there was only 5 and 25 denominations available at the auction. Chip guide says there were 1s at some point, there were Mr Lucky 1's at some time.

Here is info from Chip Guide:

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[kmccormick100]

I’ll take 400/100 please and thank you!

 

[woog30]

Sorry some of the pics suck, damn phone pics.

 

[RocAFella1]

I’ll take 400/100 please and thank you!

 

[FordPickup92]

Pretty fives, love it!!! Nice find

 

[Marius L]

Nice find! Congrats

 

[k9dr]

Nice find

 

[zo121179]

I’ll take 400/100 please and thank you!

 

[justincarothers]

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Ditto

 

[ReallyGoodUsername]

Wow congrats on the find!

 

[DoubleEagle]

Awesome find!

 

[woog30]

Guys I've had a couple conversation requests, full disclosure I do plan on offering some of these up, they will be very reasonable priced. Obviously having the same number of 5s as 25s might be an issue. I dont want to endless racks of 25s left over. Thanks

 

[woog30]

Guys I've had a couple conversation requests, full disclosure I do plan on offering some of these up, they will be very reasonable priced. Obviously having the same number of 5s as 25s might be an issue. I dont want to endless racks of 25s left over. Thanks

PS I'm in Buffalo next weekend which may help with shipping costs.

 

[FDLmold]

Guys I've had a couple conversation requests, full disclosure I do plan on offering some of these up, they will be very reasonable priced. Obviously having the same number of 5s as 25s might be an issue. I dont want to endless racks of 25s left over. Thanks

And you have discovered the trick to selling parts of a set. I recently priced racks at $60/$90/$150 from a set just so I didn't end up with extras. It worked.

 

[moose]

Make sure you update the chipguide with a non-notched pic of the $25.

 

[mike32]

Very cool old school chips!

 

[Rhodeman77]

Great find! How hard are shaped inlays to remove?

 

[woog30]

Great find! How hard are shaped inlays to remove?

I don't know that, @Gear can you chime in as this was something I was thing about.

 

[slisk250]

Guys I've had a couple conversation requests, full disclosure I do plan on offering some of these up, they will be very reasonable priced. Obviously having the same number of 5s as 25s might be an issue. I dont want to endless racks of 25s left over. Thanks

I think you won’t have problems moving these 25s. Offer them first until you are left with the number you want compared to the 5s

 

[liftapint]

BJ Games. LOL

 

[ReallyGoodUsername]

BJ Games. LOL

Finally. I promised myself I wasn't going to be the first person to say it.

 

[Perthmike]

BJ Games. LOL

Where everyone gets a happy ending

 

[kmccormick100]

Guys I've had a couple conversation requests, full disclosure I do plan on offering some of these up, they will be very reasonable priced. Obviously having the same number of 5s as 25s might be an issue. I dont want to endless racks of 25s left over. Thanks

Dibs!!

 

[markleteenie]

Where everyone gets a happy ending

Dibs

 

[Gear]

Great find! How hard are shaped inlays to remove?

I don't know that, @Gear can you chime in as this was something I was thing about.

Hard. Those are 99% certain to be paper underneath the top layer, which is a big enough pain to remove from a circular inlay. Add in the shape and it's a PITA.

But it can be done. I know a guy

 

[HeWhoWouldPun]

Awesome find. But to have some sarcasm to make me feel better about not having great finds like this one, and recognizing I am ‘Merican, how does the metric system allow measurements of chips in ml? I know Americans have some messed up measurements but I haven’t seen chips measured in ml.....

 

[allforcharity]

Niiiiiiiice!

Maybe some enterprising persons may want to turn those $25s into fracs for Cali cash sets.

 

[AWenger]

Obviously having the same number of 5s as 25s might be an issue. I dont want to endless racks of 25s left over. Thanks

The extra racks of $25s probably wouldn't be too hard to sell, especially if you took the time to sort them by condition -- from the pic above, some $25s have sharp edges and some have more rounded edges.

I would consider buying a spare rack of $25s in uniform used condition, with rounded edges, if you have any of those left over.

 

[AWenger]

how does the metric system allow measurements of chips in ml?

Yes. It seems the scale should be grams (not ml). However, the weight of water is 1 gram = 1 ml. So the scale might just be a kitchen scale to measure water, milk, etc. and is just measuring grams, even though it says milliliters.

 

[colter ripton]

Cool chips. I'd definatley be in for some 5s if you want to sell some.