Need help to identify these chips (1 Viewer)

Marmacette

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Hi fellow chippers,

I was given by a family member old chips that were seized by local police many years ago from an illegal gambling house. I was wondering if any of you had informations about these chips as curiosity was too big to know more about them... They are quite heavy and in really great condition !

Thanks for your help !

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Sweet find, they really look like they were seized just today!

Well, you probably already know that these are H.C. Edwards H Mold chips, a mold that is nowadays with CPC and was used for many small illegals or "ice cream parlors".

I think two relevant things are missing to be able to truly identify them, if possible at all. Where the local police seized them and something like a distinctive hotstamp with Initials or a picture, beyond the chip denominations.

However, you can take a closer look into some of the records of H.C. Edwards and see if you can find anything here: Preserving Gaming Institute
 
They are no initials on the chips, only denominations on both sides of the chips. As for where they come from, I don't know exactly, and won't say from which city to protect my source ;)
 
http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/molddesign_letters.htm#md19

"H" MOLD (H.C.E.)-- 8 H's. H. C. Edwards and Co., NYC. Was a major supplier of Nevada chips, 1940's to 1968. The business was started in the 1920's [I own a 1929 H. C. Edwards catalog, but unfortunately it didn't include chips, just dice, cards, etc., although "checks" was one of the products listed on the cover] and was sold and broken up in 1984. Then Bazaar Supply/Berk Trading Co., Yonkers, NY, owned the mold and used it infrequently, but not for U.S. casinos. I am told that the mold was used in Europe at that time. In about 2004, Bazaar Supply/Berk Trading went out of business, and Atlantic Standard Molding/Poker Chips Online bought the mold, and although it is not yet shown on their web site, it is used today by ASM for home poker chip sets, but not for casinos..........Mark Lighterm has obtained some of the H C Edwards Co. shipping-chip hot-stamp records and has put them on two CD's ($15.00) and in an H.C.E. book. E-mail him at mlighter@bellsouth.net .....Club 36 chips are unattributed in some works, but the Richard Edward Staeffler Memorial California Card Rooms web site attributes them to club at 3628 University Ave, San Diego CA (1974-77). ... ..... As of October 2015, the mold is still being produced in Maine at Classic Poker Chips company, a company that took over from Atlantic Standard Molding in 2013-2014.
 
Those are really cool! I love those edge spots!
 
I was going to say that they were probably ordered like that as a custom order. Places weren't required to have the name of the place, city, state, country etc. I've seen plenty of custom sets with just the denomination on them like these. On top of that I don't remember seeing many HCE chips with these spots, but there were quite a few in Cuba and the Caribbean.

ChipGuide doesn't have anything for these and I'm sure the order cards are somewhere, but would need to be found. Let alone that might be a struggle because it's only the denom on either side. The stamp itself looks older so that leads me to think they're older. Don't have much other than that unfortunately! They looks really nice and in great condition if they are older, nice stuff!
 

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