As I started out in this hobby about 3.5 years ago with my wife Chris we bought our first reference book The Chip Rack the same day we bought our first chip at the Gamblers General Bookstore.

We now regularly purchase just about every book that's published on chip collecting, as well as ashtrays, etc., etc..

If you want to delve into all of the possible information available there are a great number of ancillary books authored by; Seymour, Herz, Campiglia, Anderson, Eastman, Pfaender, to name a few.

C.T. Rogers carries many of them, so does the Gamblers General Bookstore in LV and they have a web site. C.T. has an email address and is always on this BB!

Sorry if I missed anybody. Get them all! You can always make your own assessment of a valuation but we all need a bench mark to start out with!