churlbut18
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And now you have a Cali set...Just as interestingly, if you went by spot progression for the Capitols, they should be blue 1 -> yellow 5 -> black 20 -> orange 100
Most Beautiful Casino Racks (5 Viewers)
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El Condor casino. Bakersfield, CA. Open during the 1980s. Pretty baller that they would have a $500 chip.
I would LOVE to see a full set of chips. I've seen a barrel or two of the $500 chips in the wild, but that's it. Images from chipguide.
I would LOVE to see a full set of chips. I've seen a barrel or two of the $500 chips in the wild, but that's it. Images from chipguide.
Did you mean to post these in the ugliest casino rack thread?
The $1s and $5s are fairly grim and the $25 is one of the worst chips I've seen. And it's got a yellow inlay. I liked every other set you posted though lol
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The $25 pic is shit, I'll give you that. And the chip is probably the worst of the seven. Here is a little better picture of one.
http://www.thechipboard.com/archive...sbj/fs-25-el-condor-casino-bakersfield-ca-fs/
But the fracs are beautiful, and there's a $1 on eBay right now.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/El-Condor-...910745?hash=item340fa72199:g:ceYAAOSwKjFdOoO2
The five is a bit weak, but the rest are great. Leaded THC with shaped inlays. Gimme gimme.
http://www.thechipboard.com/archive...sbj/fs-25-el-condor-casino-bakersfield-ca-fs/
But the fracs are beautiful, and there's a $1 on eBay right now.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/El-Condor-...910745?hash=item340fa72199:g:ceYAAOSwKjFdOoO2
The five is a bit weak, but the rest are great. Leaded THC with shaped inlays. Gimme gimme.
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The fracs are nice colours that's true. From your initial pic, the $1 looks grey and not blue. I like the $1 in that eBay pic a lot.
The inlay is still unfortunate looking and the $5 and $25 are very very underwhelming.
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I fixed it:
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I like the 5. It has a very "old school" look to it. The $1 and the $25 are pretty ugly. Would make a great 10/20 limit set with the $5 and the $100.
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Imagine it is 1964 or so and you're in downtown Vegas. You step into the El Cortez, and THESE are the chips at the tables:
Ho-lee-nutz. Never seen a rack of these, but singles are out there if your wallet is fat. The 50 cent chip will set you back about $2000 if you want one. The others are a little less, although I've never seen a $100 come up for sale and it could be more than the frac.
Ho-lee-nutz. Never seen a rack of these, but singles are out there if your wallet is fat. The 50 cent chip will set you back about $2000 if you want one. The others are a little less, although I've never seen a $100 come up for sale and it could be more than the frac.
LOVE these. I am strongly considering copying the inlay (but with a mountain that looks more like Mt. Rainier) to make a vintage looking custom set.
Haha! I've been messing with these for a while now. I scrapped the original five though, just can't get over it.
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The Casino Club 50c is a beautiful chip on its own. Mostly because the blue in the inlay and the blue in the chip complement each other very nicely.
I also notice you gobbled up a few of the ones on the classifieds last week......
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Wasn't me! I swear! The only chips I've bought lately are Matsui Tourney group buy chips.
My bad, it was @AWenger !
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Let's go international today. Ecuador forced all casinos to close in 2012 I believe. Prior to 2000, their currency was the "sucre". Interestingly, they have now adopted the US$ as their national currency (with a ton of economic benefits). Clearly, these chips were made when the sucre was the currency. In the 70s-80s, there were about 30-40 sucre per US$. Thanks to what I'm sure was wonderful government management, there were 800 sucre per US$ in 1990 and 25000 sucre per US$ in 2000. I'm not sure when the 100k chip below was made, but its casino value in US$ could have been as high as $1000 and as low as $4. Whee!!!!
These are all lead baby, with textured inlays, Top Hat & Cane Paulson beauties. They probably made so many 5k chips because they maybe changed them out as the currency devalued? I could see a nice tourney set being made out of these...
These are all lead baby, with textured inlays, Top Hat & Cane Paulson beauties. They probably made so many 5k chips because they maybe changed them out as the currency devalued? I could see a nice tourney set being made out of these...
I'll take three racks of everything, please.
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If you look at foreign casinos who bought TH&C chips in the 1980s or so, and there aren't many who did, a lot of them did a pretty nice job with them. Here is a casino from Sri Lanka.
That is a well above average rack of chips.
That is a well above average rack of chips.
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I looked it up. At the time that Sri Lanka casino was open, 1 US Dollar could get you about 25-35 Sri Lanka Rupees.
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Have not posted here in a while. While I haven't exhausted all good old casino racks, I've highlighted most of them. Here's one that I haven't shown yet.
These are leaded, textured Paulsons. I'm pretty sure it would be a race to see who could get there first if these chips were still live and the place was still open. The $5 is weak, but I think it is a bad, dark picture. The Horse Book $5 has the same colors and appears much brighter/better.
These are leaded, textured Paulsons. I'm pretty sure it would be a race to see who could get there first if these chips were still live and the place was still open. The $5 is weak, but I think it is a bad, dark picture. The Horse Book $5 has the same colors and appears much brighter/better.
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Images from chipguide, and according to chipguide, this casino was open from 1980-1986. Wish I was there the day they closed to buy all their chips. Anybody have a time machine? Every chip here is fantastic. Seriously.
churlbut18
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Someone here has a rack of the $5’s... it’s changed hands a few times over the years... i actually don’t recall ever seeing the other denoms... pretty nice lineup...
I have the 5s. Someone else has the 500s. I’m doing a leaded shaped inlay tribute relabel set around them.
From what I hear a janitor stole these 2 racks and only these 2 racks. No more out there sadly
From what I hear a janitor stole these 2 racks and only these 2 racks. No more out there sadly
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The $1 is weak, like blecch. But the rest of these? Magnificent! From Venezuela. Opened in '96, and these were the original chips, so all lead (Pb) baby.
That janitor sucks. He could have at least stolen moreI have the 5s. Someone else has the 500s. I’m doing a leaded shaped inlay tribute relabel set around them.
From what I hear a janitor stole these 2 racks and only these 2 racks. No more out there sadly
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I love the spot color change up on that bearclaw $25. I don't think I have seen that done before.
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I like it too. The metallic gold on green is not great, but the way they made the pattern, it's like you get two 618 spot patterns for the price of one.
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Yeah maybe the colors look better in person (gold doesn't really photograph well), but I would love to see someone try that pattern with a more interesting color combination. Very cool stuff.
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