Very few things on this board shock me these days, but the news of Bruce Landau's death is beyond comprehension. Bruce was one of the most enthusiastic chippers that I have ever known. I used to have this crazy man always bothering me at Harvey's for chips. That was before we called it a hobby, before we had a club, before there were "chippers" and before even the gaming industry knew what collectors were. Over the years I began to understand that Bruce was truly the Ambassador of chipping for the entire United States and the world. He used his numerous travels with Bogan Photo to find chips in every corner of the world. If you want to know the truth, Bruce worked at chipping and played at chipping. There was a reason that he was club member No. 2, just behind Archie Black the CC>CC founder - because he was also a founder of the hobby. In the early years there was Harvey Fuller, Phil Jensen, Dale Seymour and Bruce Landau and not very many others. If you could say that all of us liked chips and collecting at a level 10, you could say that Bruce liked chip collecting at around level 15! When the CC>CC started, it was Bruce who was one of the most enthusiastic collectors. When I first published the Guide to Collecting Nevada Checks & Chips, it was Bruce's Landau's collection that provided the vast majority of photographs. I remember spending 12 hours in Bruce and Ilene's kitchen with Kregg and a camera. I can remember spending hours of work with Bruce conducting the clubs auctions. Few people have given our hobby the attention that Bruce gave to all of us. It is really difficult to think of this hobby without Bruce Landau. I will miss him greatly as a personal friend, as a fellow collector, and as a man who made enthusiasm in chipping an art form.