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The Chip Board Archive 10

ID this great 1935 BC Wills "HW" inlaid set?

This is one the most unusual inlaid sets I have ever seen. I had never seen one like it before. It appears here just as it appears in the U S Playing Card Co. sample-shipping card-- three inlaid chips; the red and white chips have the familiar B C Wills small key rim mold, and the green chip has a plain mold (that is, no embossed rim mold at all) and a serrated edge. Thus, we have an inlaid set with two different types of chips. 500 chips in all were sent to B C Wills according to the USPC records.

I'll be putting these on eBay tomorrow, unless someone makes an offer I can't refuse. Can anyone ID the chips other than what is alredy known from the US Playing Card Co records? -- that they were sent to B C Wills Co. (the large mob-related gambling supply house in Detroit, and later in Reno) in 1935. I have only this one green dupe. (The chip on the lower left was/is originally a regular white chip with a white inlay, but along the way someone colored (with pencil perhaps) the chip some; all of my white chips of this set have been so colored.)

Robert


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