Canceled Cavanaugh's $1 with shaped, gold inlays! Unique! Once in a lifetime opportunity! (1 Viewer)

Hear ye, hear ye!

For your consideration, we have a supply of $1 chips from the closed card room in the Cavanaugh Motor Inn, Kalispell, Montana up for auction.

Beautiful, solid Paulson THC mold with a cog-shaped inlay, very rare among low-denomination chips. Inlay is also an equally rare base golden colour, not to be mistaken for “old faded white”. Condition is casino used, from fair to good, still nice and plenty of play life left. (Base chip hue is more green than in the picture.)

Auction price is for one lot of 100 chips. There are a limited number of lots available, which are likely all that’s available in any real quantity on the secondary market. The winner of the auction (determined as per the auction rules below) will have the opportunity to purchase as many lots as is wanted, up to the total number of lots available, and each for the winning auction bid. If there are lots still available after the auction winner has fully paid for the lots desired, then the remaining lots may be offered to other bidders of the auction in order of highest bidders first, AT THE SELLER’S DISCRETION.

Bidders are not required to pre-specify how many lots they are interested in acquiring, if they happen to be the winning bidder.

To encourage more active bidding and purchase of multiple lots, I, as the seller, reserve the right to offer incentives to the highest bidder(s). These incentives may include, but are not necessarily limited to, discounts based on number of lots ordered, favourable shipping terms, and bonus chips. These incentives shall be revealed and offered only to the winning bidder(s) AFTER the official close of the auction, so as to keep a level playing field among potential bidders.

Feel free to ask questions in the auction thread. We shall endeavor to answer quickly and to the fullest extent of our knowledge.

Ladies and gentlemen, let the bidding start!



RULES

1. STARTING BID: $125 (per lot of 100 chips), all pricing in US dollars.
2. Bids must be placed in minimum increments of $5
3. The Starting Bid of the auction will be treated as the Reserve Price.
4. All bids are to be placed openly in this thread. No bids via PM/Conversation.
5. Auction will use the '5 minutes after last closing bid rule'. Highest bid at 0800h, Pacific Time, Saturday July 21, 2018 will win unless there is a bid within 5 minutes of closing time - then the closing time will be 5 min. after the latest bid was posted.
6. Edited posts will be voided.
7. I reserve the right to: i) cancel the auction if no bids have been made; ii) edit the listing to correct errors or clarify rules as needed.
8. PCF (it's Owner, Admins, and Moderators) are in no way responsible for any actions in this auction.
9. Shipping Terms: Will ship worldwide. Buyer to pay actual shipping costs. US destinations will be shipped from the US. Canadian and International destinations will be shipped from Canada (may cause slight delay in shipping).
10. Payment Terms: All payment in US dollars via PayPal Friends & Family, or PayPal Goods & Services with an extra 4% surcharge to cover fees. Do NOT convert to Canadian dollars.

 

[Tommy]

Its a good chance that they were cleaned at some point. The slight whitish/fading on the the rolling edge is usually a sign of being soaked for too long (or too harsh of a cleaner). This could be the cause for the inlays appearing faded around the edges.

 

[upNdown]

I was under the impression that the Chip Guide was generally accepted as an accurate source of information. Perhaps not perfect, but the default assumption for them is that the images, descriptions and text is authoritative.

Linked below is the Chip Guide entry for Cavanaugh's in Montana - now defunct. While it is possible that all the chips from Cavanaugh's has a "white" label/inlay that has faded to "gold" or been stained somehow, I wouldn't assume that to be the case without some evidence. The Chip Guide images show the same shade of "gold" as the images in this thread.

I would not accept an argument of "prove the chips weren't faded" vs assuming the images on the Chip Guide and elsewhere (including those in this thread) as being valid. Collectively we have millions of vintage casino chips. I don't know of any instance where the entire stock of chips had inlays that faded uniformly into another color. Yes we have seen individual chips suffering from damage but not the entire stock of chips and not uniform.

It is possible that a common cause of variance is in play. Maybe all the chips got exposed to water or some cleanser or a gas of some sort. However, I expect the parties proposing this sort of explanation to bear the burden of proof.

And in the end, I am not sure it matters at all. So long as the inlays don't look bad - - - does it matter if they were made with off-white inlays that faded uniformly to gold or if they were made exactly as they look today?

DrStrange

http://www.themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=MTKACA

I don’t know anything about this “gold” discussion, but as far as clay colors go, I’d never take the chip guide as accurate. All too often their clay color descriptions seem like guess work. Or they just say “blue,” though there are something like close to ten different Paulson blues.

 

[allforcharity]

do you have 5$ or 50 or 25 cent chips

I have an extremely limited quantity of $5. There were no Cavanaugh fracs as part of the acquisition.

 

[allforcharity]

I stand by everything I have stated in the OP. The base inlay colour of these chips is indeed gold. Their condition is casino used. I never have, and never will, intentionally mislead anybody about the description of the chips I put up for sale here, and have tried to provide accurate pictures. I am fully invested in my reputation here as an honest seller and buyer, as well as my intentions with the proceeds of these and other offerings. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

 

[allforcharity]

10 hours, for those just waking up in Western Europe!

 

[allforcharity]

When I get my act together, I'll be putting these up for straight sale, with the 5's. Look for a great deal for the lot or by rack.