Excellent findings, indeed, and this is additional thinking:

Though I will discount the 497 green chips that I located (in several different finds) in the Miami area over the last 10-years, I still feel that there is a very stong possibility that the same chip was used at both "seasonal" locations.

I agree with John Z's obsevation regarding the mold being a favored Dixie mold...even though we know the mold circulated in the Caribbean (Hatie) and many other locatins not in The South.

We must also consider the names of both clubs. Documentation (Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Miami) tells us the name of the club located at 9410 Harding Ave., Surfside, was known as the BROOK CLUB. The documentation we have on the Saratoga property is that the name was THE BROOK...and the chips read --> BROOK CLUB.

Since I'm not discounting that both clubs may have used the same chips (Saratoga club organized 1880s; Miami club organized 1930), the Saratoga club shut down in 1950; TGT, and the Miami (Surfside) club is documented as closing in the '50s (Florida's Chip book; Lighterman, Lighterman & Ginsburg).

I don't know what historical information we have available (Saratoga) to us mentioning that Harry McLeod, Lou Meyers and Billy Mahers (owners of Surfside location) hung out in Saratoga. And it's also rcorded (via Robert Eisenstadt) that The Meadowbrook was referred to as Brook Club...especially when destroyed by fire; newspares called it Brook Club.

So, we still have a pretty chip on a pretty mold that we're not too sure about. <g>

JB