I guess it's a trade secret then, Jim? OK, I can accept that, but I'm sure curious.
I don't understand the comment about who owned the chip, though. I'm not saying it's a chip that Jerry Wall had made, just that it's likely from his monster collection. For those who didn't know Jerry, he was a major collector and dealer in Nevada casino chips. He bought many rarities and had lots of scarce chips in quantity. He also bought "The Gambler" business after Bill Borland died. Jerry retired from the hobby due to health reasons and his family held a "closeout" sale at the club convention a few years ago that was "the sale of the decade" as far as I'm concerned. So yes, he had a lot of Borland chips, but many, many more scarce Nevada chips.
The collection went to Gambler's General Store in Las Vegas where a separate "chip section" was set up to sell the chips. The remnants of the collection went primarily to two chip dealers... Bill Akeman was the GGS employee who handled retail sales for them, and it seems he now has much of the better stuff for sale from his home in the Missouri Ozarks.
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