Psypher1000
Straight Flush
"It started with a chair"
Errr...chip. It started with a *chip*. I had seen some of the old Horseshoe Club chips in pictures - mostly the plain $1's and the common blue $5 bike tire chips on the horseshoe mold - and liked the look of the mold but never thought much of it. But then I saw an eBay listing for one of these...
...and my heart went...
so I bid. And bid again. And "It sold for how much???" thus paying too much for it, and bought it. Tadaa!!
This did two things: it set the hook for the horseshoe mold, and for the Horseshoe Club chips. The $500 led to a $5 and a $1, which led to a nicer $5, then a frac, and then I got water on them or fed them after midnight or something and...
Yeah. And then I found out there were variants, so science demanded...
Meanwhile, a seller appeared to be liquidating the entire Horseshoe Club rack - either from the old place itself or a collector wanting to remain semi-anonymous - chip-by-chip. I reached out to the seller to see if they had sufficient quantities for a playable set and, if so, what that might run me. They said they would look at their inventory and see what they could do.
Silence.
I hit them up again with a friendly reminder. Weeks went by. Still more silence. Guess I had the only answer I needed. Sucked for me, but oh well.
Some time later I was scrolling through the Chip Guide and found this image...
...and my heart went...
Not sure how I had missed this before - I'd looked at the Horseshoe page plenty of times before, but I absolutely LOVED that inlay (minus the picture of Benny, but even that was acceptable for the time period). I didn't see it in my Chip Rack so I knew it had to be a newer image or discovery. When I reached out to folks with the latest edition of the chip rack, they confirmed it was in there with a price range of * listed. Normally there's a letter, with A being the cheapest range and Z being the most expensive. This chip was more expensive than that, or at least had no known market.
And then I was sad.
Errr...chip. It started with a *chip*. I had seen some of the old Horseshoe Club chips in pictures - mostly the plain $1's and the common blue $5 bike tire chips on the horseshoe mold - and liked the look of the mold but never thought much of it. But then I saw an eBay listing for one of these...
...and my heart went...
so I bid. And bid again. And "It sold for how much???" thus paying too much for it, and bought it. Tadaa!!
This did two things: it set the hook for the horseshoe mold, and for the Horseshoe Club chips. The $500 led to a $5 and a $1, which led to a nicer $5, then a frac, and then I got water on them or fed them after midnight or something and...
Yeah. And then I found out there were variants, so science demanded...
Meanwhile, a seller appeared to be liquidating the entire Horseshoe Club rack - either from the old place itself or a collector wanting to remain semi-anonymous - chip-by-chip. I reached out to the seller to see if they had sufficient quantities for a playable set and, if so, what that might run me. They said they would look at their inventory and see what they could do.
Silence.
I hit them up again with a friendly reminder. Weeks went by. Still more silence. Guess I had the only answer I needed. Sucked for me, but oh well.
Some time later I was scrolling through the Chip Guide and found this image...
...and my heart went...
Not sure how I had missed this before - I'd looked at the Horseshoe page plenty of times before, but I absolutely LOVED that inlay (minus the picture of Benny, but even that was acceptable for the time period). I didn't see it in my Chip Rack so I knew it had to be a newer image or discovery. When I reached out to folks with the latest edition of the chip rack, they confirmed it was in there with a price range of * listed. Normally there's a letter, with A being the cheapest range and Z being the most expensive. This chip was more expensive than that, or at least had no known market.
And then I was sad.