For Sale MAPES Hotel & Casino 510 Chip Set (12 Viewers)

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Please turn on international mode sir. Will give it a run and pay insurance. Epic colors , love the shabby chic TRK boxes.

Holy I need to make 50 posts too...waaaaaaaaaa
 
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Foolish question but what makes these chips so amazing?
 
Psypher1000 said:
1) TRK's

2) Colors/spot patterns (both attributable to TRK)

3) Rarity

4) Nostalgia/Americana/History

May be other reasons as well.
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5) Best feel of a poker chip ever. It's like clay had sex with butter, and these were the love child.

6) Best sound. They sound like a Clydesdale walking on a cobblestone street.

I want them so badly, but I know that if I begin buying non-zombie chips, I'll be in a world of financial hurt. Unless I peel off the Mapes label and relabel them as Zombies...
 
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BNM said:
Foolish question but what makes these chips so amazing?
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Psypher1000 said:
1) TRK's

2) Colors/spot patterns (both attributable to TRK)

3) Rarity

4) Nostalgia/Americana/History

May be other reasons as well.
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+1. TRK chips are in a league of their own, feel-wise and color-wise. And the set up for auction are probably some of the most colorful casino chips ever made by TRK...and they existed in one casino's rack! As for rarity, TRK chips in a playable set, vintage or otherwise (and let alone from an actual casino!) are extremely rare. But the Mapes chips are rarer still--as David mentioned, barely any of the gorgeous $1 chips survived, and as such they alone are worth a goodly amount. Same goes for the hundos. Finally, Mapes Casino in Reno was one of the original, old-school casinos in Reno, with a storied history, and it no longer exists. Reno has always been the red-headed step-child to Vegas in most people's view. However, those of us that are true connoisseurs of old school Nevada gaming view Reno as THE old-school gambling town of Nevada, in part because it was run by locals and also because it is still old-school.

I also note that in those days, it was extremely unusual for a casino to have such lovely $1 chips with multicolor spots and inlays...typically low denomination chips were very plain. Contrast the Mapes $1 with my Riverside $1s. So all the more reason these are highly coveted.

If I was more of an a$$hole (and had the spare scratch) I'd buy these and put Liftapint, Harley and a few other members totally on life tilt and probably give Slisk an aneurysm.
 
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Crap, out of oil for the popcorn popper (I don't like that air popper crap). Hold on, I gotta run to the store. But I don't want to miss this!!!
 
So to be clear the auction Goes till 8:00

That means bids are good till 8:00:59

Bids past time stamp 8:01 are void.

Hopefully that is clear
 
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