Fleabitten BCC chip not showing showing edge spot colour inside?!? (1 Viewer)

[timinater]

What’s the story here… I have no reason to believe these BCC’s are anything but legitimate, based on the look/feel/ in my 10 years of having this set… but why would the flea bites be showing anything other than the base colour of the chips?

I wondered if it was a scuff of some sort and would rub off but that doesn’t appear to be the case. I’ve got another example of a small flea bite continuing to show the edge spot colour.

Colour me confused. Any historians out there know about an experimental technique or something else? Almost looks like a “side paint” situation.

I will add these chips have been used heavily over the years as my primary tourney set until recently.

Unfortunately I won’t be destroying one for science. This is the only colour/spot combo I’ve seen of these CDI’s and I’ve got two racks exactly.

 

[MeridianFC]

That is curious. I would think that the only thing you would see would be the spot color all the way through unless it was near the edge and then you might see some base color. I think I have one BCC CDI somewhere I’ll see if I can find it and I don’t mind scraping the edge spot a little bit to see what happens.

 

[timinater]

That is curious. I would think that the only thing you would see would be the spot color all the way through unless it was near the edge and then you might see some base color. I think I have one BCC CDI somewhere I’ll see if I can find it and I don’t mind scraping the edge spot a little bit to see what happens.

These ones are unlike any I’ve seen. Different base colours and spots from other CDI’s so must be a different run than others.

Don’t let that stop the science, of course

 

[MeridianFC]

The samples that I have is definitely an original offering and have the standard colors that matched the old Paulson CDI’s.

I nicked the corner of one of the edge spots, and it did whiten up a bit when I first did it, but it is also obviously the same color all the way through

 

[MeridianFC]

I just had a thought could that white be transfer from something that nicked the chip in the first place?

 

[Joe Harris]

Knowing BCC I assume they ran out of the right color clay so instead used white clay and hired some middle schoolers to color in the spots in with markers

 

[Tommy]

Maybe the ingredients used to make that color were not properly mixed. Try another spot color or the base color.... for science.

 

[MeridianFC]

You’ve got to at least Nick the yellow spot color to see what happens. Come on man boldly go where no man has gone before.

 

[MeridianFC]

Just noticed this in @5aces Classified sale (free bump here!).

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/esst-25-100-500-1k.95235/#post-2007981

Check out what looks like base color in the black spot on bottom chip. Probably based material just transferred to the spot but interesting as it relates to this investigation.

 

[BGinGA]

Just noticed this in @5aces Classified sale (free bump here!).

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/esst-25-100-500-1k.95235/#post-2007981

Check out what looks like base color in the black spot on bottom chip. Probably based material just transferred to the spot but interesting as it relates to this investigation.

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That's much more likely to be a small bit of errant lime green clay debris that was pressed into the black/grape spot.

Same reason CPC charges extra for Bright White base chips; it's hard to keep them pristine.

 

[upNdown]

Just noticed this in @5aces Classified sale (free bump here!).

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/esst-25-100-500-1k.95235/#post-2007981

Check out what looks like base color in the black spot on bottom chip. Probably based material just transferred to the spot but interesting as it relates to this investigation.

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Yeah, what @BGinGA said. Little “splashes” like that happen all the time with paulsons, and I love them.

 

[MeridianFC]

Now I really want @timinater to chop one of those bad boys up!

 

[moose]

Side paint obv.