Christy & Jones top hat & cane chips were made by the Burt Co up until the early 1970's, then Paulson took over that mold.My Brother-in-law recently passed away and we found this set.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You
That’s what I’d sayChristy & Jones top hat & cane chips were made by the Burt Co up until the early 1970's, then Paulson took over that mold.
What you have looks like a sales/marketing sample. Very, very cool...have not seen one of them.
Robert Eisenstadt's mold project said:HAT (NO CANE) -- 8 top hats. You can see the injection mold circle inside the top hat in the picture to the left. Not used for casino chips, for sure. I put the entry here in case anyone would ever mistake these for MD-76 and MD-77 just below.......... ............. I have the chips in red, blue and white for sale.
Robert Eisenstadt's mold project said:HAT AND CANE (H&C CJ) -- top hat and cane, repeated 8 times. 1955-1965. Christy & Jones Co., Las Vegas NV. This H&C mold is very similar to the one above, MD-76. One difference is that the Paul-son H&C (for quite a while) was about 7 mm long while the CJ (Christy & Jones) H&C is about 9 mm long; the CJ ones have slightly taller hats, too. Unlike the Paul-son one, the CJ one usually has a shiny inside to the hat and a metal pellet inside the chip (X-ray it or take it apart)......Edge spots are another way to distinguish CJ chips from Paulson ones. The CJ edge spots have neat, smooth borders; the Paulson ones (but not the modern full and wide graphic ones -- see MD-76b, above) tend to be sloppy/uneven. The Paulson ones have convex ends, while the CJ ones are either straight, or --if the edge spots are a half inch or wider-- concave.
I think they all have canes, just hard to see, especially on the black chip.
We need a family tree diagram of all these companies. It seems like they are all related. Worse than the advertising industry.Show of hands:
How many people know that the "Jones" in Christy & Jones is none other than Bud Jones, who later started his own company?