Hiya j. Yes, I would think the chips have been absorbed into the stacks of private poker games over the years. Probably the movie company just rented a rack locally of any sort of period chips for the film along with period autos and old timey location settings. Wouldn't imagine anyone would have hung onto them as movie props. No eBay back in '65, no nostalgia craze...shoot, we hadn't even gotten our first pair of bellbottoms yet! It was worth the small cost for me to acquire a set of the chips just to ponder the games they may have seen.

The lobby card shown has the caption "Rip Torn proves a bad loser against Edward G. Robinson in a poker session, with Karl Malden the dealer." with our comet chips obscured by some sort of colorization. Can't remember the source of the card, Canadian or otherwise, that warrented the inkstamp "Not Suitable For Children"! How many of our modern poker millionaires were playing poker with grandma as tykes about this time I wonder?