CrazyEddie
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Some pr0n and some questions.
I bought a small grab bag of chips on eBay, and now that they've arrived I've (happily) gotten more than I expected! First, a handful of Starbursts in black and grey:
Next, some cancelled (?) RT Plastics:
And then finally, the unexpected. The eBay listing called these "Bakelite" chips, which are usually vintage but completely uninteresting (and usually not even Bakelite). But it turns out these are actually Catalin chips - which are much more interesting. Catalin chips are marbled and translucent and, in my opinion, quite attractive. I have a modest collection of them. But they almost always come in three colors: butterscotch, red, and blue-ish/green-ish. The colors vary quite a bit from batch to batch and manufacturer to manufacturer; shade matching is pretty much a lost cause if you can't buy a complete set all at once. The blue/green chips vary in color, sometimes very blue, sometimes very green... but they're also very dark, so that if the light is shining on them rather than through them they can look almost black.
These chips, though, really are black. They're the blackest Catalin chips I've ever seen. Not a trace of blue or green about them. They have some yellow flecks and swirls that are just barely noticeable, which is how you can tell that they're Catalin (beside the shape) - they are distinctly marbled, but still very, very black.
Which is perfect. My Catalin set, like pretty much all of them, only has three colors, hence only three denominations. Now I can add a handful of hundos to it.
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On to the questions. First of all, can anyone tell me anything about this?
I asked a similar question once before, but don't recall the answer and can't find the post. @ReallyGoodUsername asked a similar question here but there wasn't much discussion afterwards; maybe @72o could shed some further light.
Next question: Has anyone seen any more of these RT Plastics circular hotstamps, and/or can you tell me anything more about them? I'm assuming they're cancellation stamps. I think they're pretty cool, and I'm adding them to my collection and thinking of them as "Starburst Lite" chips.
Thanks for following along, and please let me know if you've got any knowledge of or experience with these chips!
I bought a small grab bag of chips on eBay, and now that they've arrived I've (happily) gotten more than I expected! First, a handful of Starbursts in black and grey:
Next, some cancelled (?) RT Plastics:
And then finally, the unexpected. The eBay listing called these "Bakelite" chips, which are usually vintage but completely uninteresting (and usually not even Bakelite). But it turns out these are actually Catalin chips - which are much more interesting. Catalin chips are marbled and translucent and, in my opinion, quite attractive. I have a modest collection of them. But they almost always come in three colors: butterscotch, red, and blue-ish/green-ish. The colors vary quite a bit from batch to batch and manufacturer to manufacturer; shade matching is pretty much a lost cause if you can't buy a complete set all at once. The blue/green chips vary in color, sometimes very blue, sometimes very green... but they're also very dark, so that if the light is shining on them rather than through them they can look almost black.
These chips, though, really are black. They're the blackest Catalin chips I've ever seen. Not a trace of blue or green about them. They have some yellow flecks and swirls that are just barely noticeable, which is how you can tell that they're Catalin (beside the shape) - they are distinctly marbled, but still very, very black.
Which is perfect. My Catalin set, like pretty much all of them, only has three colors, hence only three denominations. Now I can add a handful of hundos to it.
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On to the questions. First of all, can anyone tell me anything about this?
I asked a similar question once before, but don't recall the answer and can't find the post. @ReallyGoodUsername asked a similar question here but there wasn't much discussion afterwards; maybe @72o could shed some further light.
Next question: Has anyone seen any more of these RT Plastics circular hotstamps, and/or can you tell me anything more about them? I'm assuming they're cancellation stamps. I think they're pretty cool, and I'm adding them to my collection and thinking of them as "Starburst Lite" chips.
Thanks for following along, and please let me know if you've got any knowledge of or experience with these chips!
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