Looking for a Paulson color resource... (1 Viewer)

[Bowsher]

Can anyone point me to a resource which lists various Paulson casino chips and doesn't just identify their base color generically as "red" or "yellow", but actually provides the specific Paulson color like "Radiant Red" and "Canary Yellow", etc.? I've looked at MoGH / Chip Guide / CC&GTCC, and these are helpful references but they don't identify the actual/technical names of the Paulson base colors of the chips.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

 

[BGinGA]

Nope.

 

[Tommy]

identify the actual/technical names of the Paulson base colors of the chips

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/resources/paulson-chip-color-reference.2/

 

[Bowsher]

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/resources/paulson-chip-color-reference.2/

Thanks Tommy, but I'm familiar with the Paulson color chart. What I'm looking for is a resource that lists Paulson casino chips and identifies their official Paulson color. For example, PCA $5 primary = "Radiant Red", and Empress Joliet $5 secondary = "Cherry", etc. I'm asking because when a chip is offered for sale and I've never seen that chip in real life, and I find a half-dozen different photos online of that chip, I can stare at the official Paulson color chart all day and compare it against those photos and never know for sure whether the chip for sale is actually "hot pink", "radiant red", or "cherry", because it looks like each of those colors in different photos, depending on the lighting/camera. I'm trying to find chips to match an existing set, and I've wasted a lot of time and money trying to guess whether the shade of red of a certain chip is actually the shade I'm trying to match, and I feel like there's GOT to be a better way, and the information must be out there somewhere.

 

[BGinGA]

a resource that lists Paulson casino chips and identifies their official Paulson color.

the information must be out there somewhere.

Nope.

 

[BGinGA]

About the best you can do is ask, and maybe somebody here has the chip and a color set.

 

[Bowsher]

Well aren’t you just a ray of freaking sunshine! Hahaha Thanks for this info; I’m bummed to hear there’s no such resource but also glad to know I’m not missing anything.

 

[justsomedude]

I don’t think any such resource exists. But this one, combined with photos of the casino chip in question, may help you figure colors out... https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/paulson-color-verification-chart.23228/

Or, as BG stated, you can always ask...

 

[Bowsher]

I don’t think any such resource exists. But this one, combined with photos of the casino chip in question, may help you figure colors out... https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/paulson-color-verification-chart.23228/

Or, as BG stated, you can always ask...

Thanks, I saw this a long time ago but I’d forgotten all about it, I need to bookmark that thread, you’re right it’s definitely somewhat useful; at least it shows the laughably broad range of colors that can all be attributed to one official Paulson color.

 

[TheBigTater]

Yep the options are:

to purchase/build a Paulson color set, they become available for sale on eBay & the classified here sometimes (one sold a few weeks back)
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/complete-89-chip-paulson-color-sample-set.26605/
- or -
kindly ask someone who has a set to check them against the chip in question.

 

[justsomedude]

...at least it shows the laughably broad range of colors that can all be attributed to one official Paulson color.

While Paulson colors do/can have some variation, the bigger factors in perceived color change are inconsistent lighting conditions and lack of color balance from one shot to the next.

Photographing a chip in daylight and under tungsten lights in your basement, willl yield two completely different results. Even with the best color balancing in the world.

 

[Bowsher]

While Paulson colors do/can have some variation, the bigger factors in perceived color change are inconsistent lighting conditions and lack of color balance from one shot to the next.

Photographing a chip in daylight and under tungsten lights in your basement, willl yield two completely different results. Even with the best color balancing in the world.

Right, yes, exactly, it’s not that all Paulson chips that are Royal Red have a wide variance (they certainly don’t), it’s that six people can take photos of the exact same Royal Red chip and post those six pics online and they’ll all look different, so unless you have a resource telling you the chip is Royal Red, you have no way of knowing if it’s truly the color you want... you could mistake it for Radiant Red.

Anyway, I’ll stop whining now, thanks everybody for the help, sounds like there’s no such resource out there, sounds like we all struggle with it. I just feel like such an idiot when chips are selling 10 minutes after they’re posted in the Classsifieds and everyone is claiming dibs and sending PMs and I’m all like, “uhhhhhhh, what shade of red is this chip?” Haha

 

[TheBigTater]

Anyway, I’ll stop whining now, thanks everybody for the help, sounds like there’s no such resource out there, sounds like we all struggle with it. I just feel like such an idiot when chips are selling 10 minutes after they’re posted in the Classsifieds and everyone is claiming dibs and sending PMs and I’m all like, “uhhhhhhh, what shade of red is this chip?” Haha

Sometimes it's a crap shoot and frankly the seller doesn't always know what color their chips are either. Usually with experience & time you will know the colors of the chips you are interested in. But I've bought chips and then has to turn around and sell them because they weren't what I was expecting, especially when buying starburst/roulette/etc chips (for relabel) where you have to take a chance to get dibs in first.

 

[holdemhigh75]

I have the paulsons, and tbh, I find that the images of the chips found online, have been edited/enhanced for visual purposes. Also 7/10 men are colour blind or colour deficient, so everyone will perceive the colour differently. Now that I think of it, it seems bizarre that everyone perceives the chips differently

 

[ovo]

Old used chips are darker than their new version. Even lightly used will show some change. I would also point out that even Paulson's color have changed slightly over the years. One chip that comes to mind is old Fuchsia vs. new Fuchsia . Things change over time

 

[Taghkanic]

I don’t think any such resource exists. But this one, combined with photos of the casino chip in question, may help you figure colors out... https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/paulson-color-verification-chart.23228/.

Yep... While this does not provide the key the OP is looking for of chip type to color name, what I’ve been trying to do is to amalgamate all the various color charts I can find out there into one master visual list, to help with the guesswork.

However, given the wide variation one finds (due to lighting, camera settings, and also some variation in pigment batches) I don’t know how useful my project really is.

Maybe the thing would be for PCF members who have specific “species” of Paulson chips who also have sample sets to do the IDs one by one, and the problem could be crowdsourced...

 

[Taghkanic]

Also, though this is slightly off-point, FWIW here is a 2005 Paulson/Bud Jones catalog.