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****** LOTS FOR PRODIGY CHAT/AUCTION OF JULY 30, 1998 *****
Following are the lots for auction during the live chat/auction session of Thursday, July 30, 1998.
The chat session begins at 9:00 pm, EDT, and the auction at 9:30 pm for Prodigy Classic members. But YOU can participate too! Here's how.......
JoAnn Ford (HBPA20A@prodigy.com) will be accepting e-mail bids for the auction. If you'd like to bid, just send her an e-mail with the lot number and your bid. The e-mail bids will then be the basis for live bidding at the July 30 live chat/auction session. If no one in attendance bids higher than the highest e-mail bid, the e-mail bidder is the winner!
Do not reply here: send your bids to JoAnn. DEADLINE FOR E-MAIL BIDS IS WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, AT 8 PM EDT. Bid early and bid often!
The consignor's name and Prodigy ID appear immediately after each lot. IT IS THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDER'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CONTACT THE CONSIGNOR BY E-MAIL AFTERWARDS, to make arrangements for payment and shipping. Unless specified otherwise in the description of the lot, THE BUYER PAYS FOR SHIPPING. To contact a consignor, just add "@prodigy.com to the ID listed after the lot.
We have 30 lots this week, and there are some great chips, and several terrific non-chip lot as well. Should be fun for all!
LOT 1: MGM Grand LV. The elusive Betty Boop $5 chip.
Minimum bid: $25 RICHARD FIGAROTTA (GBHX34B)
LOT 2: From the new Colma Calif..game..Lucky Chances bimetal Grand Opening chip (Retails for $25: gold plate, Royce, a limited edition of only 1000) and 3 Chipcos including their new chipco June 98 Lucky (retail $15) $1 and $3.
Minimum bid: $40 MEL JUNG (BJSB25A)
LOT 3: Three new $5 4th of July chips from Laughlin. Edgewater, Ramada Express, and Colorado Belle.
Minimum bid: $21 DONALD ANTHONY (CHIP99E)
LOT 4: "The Green Felt Jungle," by Ovid Demaris and Ed Reid. This long-out-of-print and sought-after book, published in 1962, is the classic expose of how Las Vegas was run, who really owned the casinos, and who fronted for them. The first heavily-researched book to name names and reveal the secrets of inside Las Vegas, which set the standard for similar books ever since. Gambler's Book Club sells every one of these they can get their hands on, within hours! Hardbound.
Minimum bid: $35 MICHAEL KNAPP (CHIP99A)
LOT 5: Sahara, LV, $2.50, H&C, Pink with 2 Navy inserts, "Genie without face", nearly UNC condition, CR#N 7807.
Minimum bid: $8 TED BROWN (ZKFP11A)
LOT 6: Pre-Castro Cubans! Set of two, $5 & $25, Casino de Capri chips....obsolete, of course! Small key mold in VG to EX shape.
Minimum bid: $25 STEPHEN PICCOLO (CHIP99C)
LOT 7: Two $5's from Nevada: Edgewater July 4, 1997 $5 chip, Reno Hilton Air Races 1996 $5 chip.
Minimum bid: $11 JO ANN FORD (HBPA20A)
LOT 8: Bally's Grand AC 5 chip HOF set. $5 chips of Ruth, Cobb, Wagner, Mathewson, & Johnson.
Minimum bid: $36 RICHARD FIGAROTTA (GBHX34B)
LOT 9: 3 new commemoratives: Fuzzy Shimada Sundowner Reno $5, Excalibur $5 8th Anniversary Chipco, and the 1998 Year of the Tiger, Flamingo Hilton, Reno w/outstanding tiger on red/orange background.
Minimum bid: $20 MEL JUNG (BJSB25A)
LOT 10: Walker Hill Casino, Seoul, Korea. 1000 won.
Minimum bid: $8 DONALD ANTHONY (CHIP99E)
LOT 11: Classic illegal club chips: Northern Kentucky's Beverly Hills Club. When Las Vegas was still a dusty cowboy town, Reno was the largest city in Nevada, and the Strip wasn't even a gleam in Ben Siegel's eye, the Beverly Hills Club was host to the nation's top entertainers and wealthiest gamblers. In the 1930's and 1940's, one of the plushest and largest casinos in existence. Four chips hotstamped BH: blue flower rim, white flower rim, blue hourglass rim and white hourglass rim.
Minimum bid: $35 MICHAEL KNAPP (CHIP99A)
LOT 12: Last Frontier, LV, $5, DIAMND, Mustard with 3 Black inserts, "Dancing Girl", TCR N1671.
Minimum bid: $20 TED BROWN (ZKFP11A)
LOT 13: Hard Rock Valentines 1998 $5 chip and Con-Air $5 chip.
Minimum bid: $11 JO ANN FORD (HBPA20A)
LOT 14: Four Queens LV $5 Tribute to Texas chip. Many of these were destroyed by the Casino.
Minimum bid: NONE RICHARD FIGAROTTA (GBHX34B)
LOT 15: Set of Kings Castle, Tahoe, with Jester, maiden and leering King in denoms of $1, $5 and $25. Small crown classic chip with face value of $31.00!
Minimum bid: $10 MEL JUNG (BJSB25A)
LOT 16: Bally's Las Vegas - Two $5.00 varieties of the Mikohn safejack chips. TCR numbers N7966 and N9283.
Minimum bid: $25 DONALD ANTHONY (CHIP99E)
LOT 17: Two Las Vegas obsoletes, now hard to find: La Mirage 25c (pink; TCR N1838) and $1 (light blue; TCR N1837). Steve Wynn purchased the name "La Mirage" from this little off-Strip casino so that his Mirage would be the only one in Nevada! TCR value $30.
Minimum bid: $15 MICHAEL KNAPP (CHIP99A)
LOT 18: Four Queens Labor Day 1996 $5 chip.
Minimum bid: $6 JO ANN FORD (HBPA20A)
LOT 19: TWENTY $1 CHIPS from all over, mostly obsoletes: TSEI Talor Social Club in NYC, mustard with 3 green white inlay; H.E Mason gray B-9 Chicago sample "Your Club, Name $1, sample; Hilton Caribe chipco, Seahorse; Naples-Fort Myers Greyhound Track, Fla. Chipco; Rainbow Chipco, Nekoosa WI Winnebago Nation, Amer. Eagle; Sonoma Joes, Petaluma Calif Blue Chipco; Jackpot Charley's Deadwood S. Dak. creme h/s cardsuits; Oregon Blackjack, Coos Bay to Clatskanie, Chipco white w/ brown bear; The Teller House Cent. City Col. "Face on the Bar Room Floor" chipco classic; Star Casino h/c white, New Orleans La.; Treasure Island, drilled Prarie Island Mn white; Viking Serenade Cruise Line Chipco aqua green, Royal Caribb.; Casino Niagara, Ont h/c...Falls inlay; Pation Club, San Rafael obsolete errored Diamond King yellow Chipco; Meeks Bay Lake Tahoe, Blue white inlay; Sheraton Desert Inn white house mold h/c LV; Kings Castle Lake Tahoe small crown leering King, maiden. jester; Hyatt Lake Tahoe h/c blue free play seldmom seen h/s new; Frontier, house mold last issue blue classic chip; Lucky Chances opened Jul 4th Colma Calif Chipco. (over $130 retail!)
Minimum bid: $44 MEL JUNG (BJSB25A)
LOT 20: Three chips from the Star City Casino in Sydney, Australia: $1, $2.50, and $5 chips.
Minimum bid: $22 DONALD ANTHONY (CHIP99E)
LOT 21: Little Caesars was a tiny casino in a strip shopping center between Bally's and the Aladdin. It had a sports book, two blackjack tables, and a craps table, and catered to Las Vegas cab drivers among others. It closed in 1994, and its chips have become hard to find. Here's the 25c white (TCR N1874; $20 value).
Minimum bid: $12 MICHAEL KNAPP (CHIP99A)
LOT 22: Foxwoods Pavarotti 1994 $10 chip.
Minimum bid: $11 JO ANN FORD (HBPA20A)
LOT 23: Top of the Vine Bimetal odd denoms. Copper/white .50, Small Case aqua $1, lime green $1.50, Black $2.50 and dark green $3.50 ...five chips retail $29+.
Minimum bid: $18 MEL JUNG (BJSB25A)
LOT 24: The Stardust was one of Las Vegas' last casinos to deal faro, the game that was tremendously popular throughout the glory days of the West. This is one of the Stardust's early (perhaps the first) faro issue: black, smcrown, gold hotstamp "Faro Bank." TCR N6818; value $125-149.
Minimum bid: $85 MICHAEL KNAPP (CHIP99A)
LOT 25: Three Las Vegas obsoletes: Sands $1 (house mold Blue), Bourbon St $1 (suits white) and Aladdin $1 (house grey).
Minimum bid: $5 JO ANN FORD (HBPA20A)
LOT 26: Pre Convention Brass Exhibit Special: all obsolete: Harrah's Reno/Tahoe yellow $1, green $2.50 and red $5. Harveys Lake Tahoe, gold $1, green $2.50 and $5 Red. All six brass core chips!
Minimum bid: $45 MEL JUNG (BJSB25A)
LOT 27: From Austria: Casino Kitzbuhel in the ski resort town in the Alps: 20 Austrian Marks, pink European-style jeton.
Minimum bid: $10 MICHAEL KNAPP (CHIP99A)
LOT 28: 6 different .25 chips: LV Club, 4-Q's, Casino Royale, Reno Hilton, Silver City, Slots-A-Fun.
Minimum bid: $4 JO ANN FORD (HBPA20A)
LOT 29: Odd denoms: Aritichoke Joes $2 chipco with tenement house in background, San Bruno , and three Sonoma Joe Tourney Chipcos...the $2 Yellow Labor Day 1995, the $3 blue Labor Day and the $3 red New Years 95.
Minimum bid: $22 MEL JUNG (BJSB25A)
LOT 30: An early commemorative chip: $5 Bally's Las Vegas Barbara Mandrell CHIPCO. (TCR N0595)
Minimum bid: $10 MICHAEL KNAPP (CHIP99A)
This will be the last pre-announced auction until after the CC>CC convention in Las Vegas! The next Prodigy pre-listed auction will be held in September.
-=Michael the Chipper=-
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