Help Identifying Chips Please! Western Italian Stallion Stag 1992 (1 Viewer)

[Mockk]

Hello,

I came across these, and have never seen them before. I was just wondering where they came from, and if they are worth anything.

I've done a few searches, and haven't been able to find them anywhere.

Any help would greatly be appreciated!

Sorry for the bad photo quality.

Thank you in advance!

 

[links_slayer]

chipco unicorns. no idea on history of those specific chips (spent exactly 0 seconds googling). possibly customs?

not worth much to me.

 

[Mockk]

Aww, I didn't even think of the unicorns! I was set on some kind of horse mold just because of the name. I'm thinking they are customs after searching the web for awhile now.

If you had to put a price on a set of 300, roughly what should they cost?

Thanks a lot for your response! @links_slayer

 

[DrStrange]

Without some provenance I'd say $0.05 to $0.15 per chip or $15 to $45

If there is some history to those hotstamps, then we could reconsider the values.

 

[Mockk]

Thanks @DrStrange , so basically if the hotstamps are custom then it would devalue the chips? Brand new Uni Chipco's are 49 cents a piece for blanks if I am not mistaken, so being used that price range makes sense. I would like to try and find some kind of history on the hotstamps, but haven't had any luck so far.

I have been looking through local listings every few days for poker chips, and these are the first chips that I have come across that aren't just the generic dice/suited chipsets. I figured it might be worth checking out, or possibly picking up. I thought I could have possibly found a hidden gem since I was unable to find anything for sale that looked anything like these. Although, that makes me assume they are customs rather than being rare.

 

[BGinGA]

Chipco unicorn chips sold for 15c each new.

 

[Mockk]

Oh I was unaware @BGinGA.

I was just basing the pricing off of this site http://palmgaming.us/index.php?dispatch=categories.view&category_id=260

I appreciate all the info, I am still pretty new to the chip world, and have much to learn. I can pick these up for $15-$20 with the case/cards, but I am not attracted to the hotstamp really at all, and if it is just simply a custom then I probably will pass. I was hoping it was something a little harder to come by. Although, $15 is tempting just because I love chips and want all of them lol.

 

[BGinGA]

Palm Gaming (PGI) purchased all of the Chipco assets when they went out of business. The 8-gram plastic injection-molded unicorn chips were listed on the Chipco web site for 15c each, with hot-stamping available. Don't recall what the hot-stamp charges were.

 

[Mockk]

Thank you for the history! If I understand, Bud Jones also made a Unicorn mold?
These chips are advertised as being "Clay", although I know that term is often misused when referring to poker chips.

I am going to just assume that someone purchased these from Chipco in 92' and had them custom hotstamped.