"I will share with you my theory of what COULD have happened. When Bud Jones created the Castaways chips for Osborne it is possible, since the Castaways was closed and the redemption period was over, BJ made the same chip in the same molds and color as the originals. I don't know. It is my guess. If what I am stating is true than there would be no way of telling the difference and in that case we as collectors would have to accept the entire
run(s)as "real" or reject the entire run(s) as fake . As far as what the BJ records show or don't show is really of little use.Records go missing, or are incomplete or give strange results."

I can accept this theory as one of the possibilities covered in the article. Remember the notes at the beginning of the article cover characteristics which in some cases prove and in some cases dont prove the history of the chips. I know the source of the chips I specifically showed, and having viewed plenty more also, found none that varied in any way under close examination, nor showed any signs of table wear. In some cases there are boxfuls of these chips, none of which look as though they were ever out of the box, in others just single examples from a wide variety of sources, scans and descriptions of those in peoples collections etc.

As the article points out, the same could apply to the Bingo Palace, Park, Sahara & Treasury chips. My opinions will remain the same until I am shown some conclusive proof by way of actual chips (which would include the notched manufacturers samples should they still exist)

BJ records did not form part of my article for the reasons Jim has already stated.

For the other casinos covered by the article, I believe there is little room for dispute. However, I would still be very interested in any chips which dont correspond to those I show and describe.