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Hello. I created this account for this specific question. I am at my friend's who is big into gambling, history, collectables, and buying and selling all kinds of things. My/our issue is specifically poker chip history related. He recently acquired an old black jack table from the Stardust. Along with it he obtained a lot of different chips (all old). I spent a lot of time value searching them and came across a set that is quite interesting and has yielded no answers.
It is a blue $1 chip that on the back says "Sahara Club" with 3 stars in between those 2 words. Using google lense I came across interesting results. Roughly 5 or more have the exact same color and the $1 side of the chip's design were found. Identical in fact. But each result was from a different poker club in California and each had their own "logo" on the other side of the chip. Most of those results were different cities in California and around 1964. Of all of these results and searching further, we never found the exact one we physically have (Sahara Club). That is what confuses us.
We deduced many casinos (ex: Las Vegas) allow a casino imprinted chip to hold the same value at other casinos. We assume that's due to same city. These are odd because they all have exact same chip material, color, and design on one side and are used at several different cities (poker clubs).
What we are curious about is why? We cannot find a history description. We suspect the Sahara was the parent of all these lower poker clubs and they mass printed the same $1 blue chip and let each place put their own logo on the other side.
I provided screenshots of the chip(s) we have and the other identical ones in search results. The one in my hand is the actual one, he has lots of them but cannot find anything about them online. I'm sure the value of them is low, but due to no information found, if someone could also post value of them would be appreciated.
Thank you.
It is a blue $1 chip that on the back says "Sahara Club" with 3 stars in between those 2 words. Using google lense I came across interesting results. Roughly 5 or more have the exact same color and the $1 side of the chip's design were found. Identical in fact. But each result was from a different poker club in California and each had their own "logo" on the other side of the chip. Most of those results were different cities in California and around 1964. Of all of these results and searching further, we never found the exact one we physically have (Sahara Club). That is what confuses us.
We deduced many casinos (ex: Las Vegas) allow a casino imprinted chip to hold the same value at other casinos. We assume that's due to same city. These are odd because they all have exact same chip material, color, and design on one side and are used at several different cities (poker clubs).
What we are curious about is why? We cannot find a history description. We suspect the Sahara was the parent of all these lower poker clubs and they mass printed the same $1 blue chip and let each place put their own logo on the other side.
I provided screenshots of the chip(s) we have and the other identical ones in search results. The one in my hand is the actual one, he has lots of them but cannot find anything about them online. I'm sure the value of them is low, but due to no information found, if someone could also post value of them would be appreciated.
Thank you.
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