Official Error Chip Thread (3 Viewers)

[derekdd23]

The tooling alone would be over $30,000 for every size you tried.

TR King's process was nothing like ours. Not really compression molded.

How were they molded then?

 

[Seeking Alpha Social Club]

I recently started looking more closely at my TR King poker chips and noticed some with errors (or flaws) in them. I think most of my questions were answered here, but still wondering which of the following makes a chip an error chip (as opposed to just being flawed or messed up, if there is a difference)

Wrong denomination value on the chip, i.e., $5 denomination on a $1 chip (bottom 2 white chips)?

Label misplaced on the chip (top middle and top right white chips)?

Label placed on the chip correctly, but the image is printed wrong (top left white chip)?

Edge spots not correctly / completely pressed into the rest of the chip (blue $25k chip)?

Are error chips more valuable than non error chips?

Thanks!

Error Chips 1

• Seeking Alpha Social Club
• Dec 31, 2015

Error Chip 2

• Seeking Alpha Social Club
• Dec 31, 2015

 

[Toby]

 

[slisk250]

CPC Missed spot. I love it!

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[72o]

Came across this one recently. Not too bad but compared to their brothers, was a little off.

 

[duffman]

Was in the middle of scraping some roulette chips for a relabel project and came across this...

 

[iballman]

Was in the middle of scraping some roulette chips for a relabel project and came across this...View attachment 74718

What mold is that? THC^2?

That's really cool.

 

[RussB42]

These have the same inlay on both sides..

 

[AfterTheFact]

@HQ post your Mapes error chip here please.

@allothers feel free to post em if you find em...

 

[K ALL IN 9]

I can't remember who sent me these but whoever it was hooked me up with a sample set that included this chip

Edit: it was @meatboy

 

[Jackstraw]

$5 one one side, $25 on reverse

$25 on both sides

Just caught this one the other day

 

[Jeff]

About 20 with plain white spots instead of bright white. This gets less visible as the chips get dirty.

6 of 500 with error #1

7 of 500 with error 2

 

[RainmanTrail]

Here's mine...

20160206_120245

• RainmanTrail
• Feb 7, 2016

 

[AfterTheFact]

This one is tricky, spot combos are out of sync.

 

[BGinGA]

This one is tricky, spot combos are out of sync.

Or maybe they aren't.....

I'd buy that pattern if offered.

 

[AfterTheFact]

Just won on eBay and not in hand yet, but the Chip Guide lists this as an error chip

 

[RainmanTrail]

Just won on eBay and not in hand yet, but the Chip Guide lists this as an error chip

View attachment 113324

I was all excited when I grabbed one of those at the convention that said "error chip" until I got home and realized that of the ~50 of these I have, more than half are the "error chips" lol. I wonder if @LabMonkey's are too?

 

[LabMonkey]

I was all excited when I grabbed one of those at the convention that said "error chip" until I got home and realized that of the ~50 of these I have, more than half are the "error chips" lol. I wonder if @LabMonkey's are too?

Of the 101 that I have, 23 are the error kind. One of those error chips is the elusive double error variety.

 

[TroyMan]

As posed to us during our preschool years.... "One of these doesn't belong, which one is it?"

 

[David Spragg]

As posed to us during our preschool years.... "One of these doesn't belong, which one is it?"

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That's a good one. Not so common.

 

[TroyMan]

Funny how these error chips become part of one's favorites. I've thought about seeing if I could get this one added to the ChipGuide. I see the Mapes $1 error chips and the $5 chip witth the two yellow spots there, but not the one that I posted above.

http://www.themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=NVREMA

 

[RainmanTrail]

When I place my next order with @David Spragg, I'll be sure to ask for a few error chips to be included (y) :thumbsup:

 

[JFCJ]

@TroyMan, I know @AfterTheFact has added several. I believe I emailed someone a scan of the chip in question, but I don't recall who.

 

[AfterTheFact]

On the top left of the home page under submissions

 

[GenghisKhan]

I no longer have the picture, but I once got an extra chip thrown in on an eBay purchase. Was like 15 chips worth about $1 each, and guy was nice enough to throw in a bonus chip that was not pictured at all.

Turns out it was an Atlantic City error chip and there were only 1 or 2 others known about. Was told it was worth $250, and that's what I got for it.

Edit: Oh yes it was Resorts Intl. 50c error chip cancelled with starburst stamp.

 

[TroyMan]

On the top left of the home page under submissions

Thanks, I'll check it out.

 

[TroyMan]

@David Spragg, Do you happen to know who manufactured these hourglass Mapes?. I believe they weigh around 11g each.

Found this manufacturer online. The time period seems to align as the ChipGuide says the Mapes hourglass was made in the 50s. Both have 30 hourglasses, but the area outside the outer ring seems smaller on the illegal chip below, unless that's just from wear.

 

[Jeff]

All the same error except one special chip. This was out of 500 chips.

 

[Mr Hanky]

I just noticed Jeffs post and i remembered that i figured out visiting his website that he received an error chip in his sample set from me. Unfortunately i did not noticed that prior shipping...
@Jeff : i copied the pic from your website to post it here. Hope that's ok for you

 

[Phantom]