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Borland At Battle Mountain

In early 1998, I got the 25¢ purple chip below from Flash. Two weeks later I got quite a few Borland chips from Armin. Armin practically gave them to me hoping I would prove some or all were real chips. There was a 25¢ purple BM in the lot, I did not take as I already had it.

Larry Caswell was the Bud Jones salesman, a friend, and a club member. Larry came from Kansas City with Bud after the Christy Jones break up. In fact Larry was the only salesman BJ had for many years. He wife was a Jones, maybe a niece.

I showed the purple 25¢ to Larry, Larry said BM was his client and he had sold them a lot of different chips. I was only interested in the purple 25¢.
The BJ records were still in tact at that time. They have since been shredded. When Bud died Mrs. Jones had them shredded. I believe it was done, so the Borland and Osborne deals could never be tracked.

Sorry I digressed. grin
Larry checked the records and said he had not sold the purple 25¢ to BM. He said Borland had to have sold it to BM after Borland bought the NV and DiCd molds..
(BTW Larry and Borland were friends for a long time.)

I said why did he have to sell it to them and not just made it as a counterfeit. Larry said, "Bill would never have counterfeited an open casino's chips." He was adamant about that.
I asked him to call BM and confirm the sale.
He came back with words to the effect, " that A$$hole, he took the molds I sold for years and stole my long time customer." grin

Larry checked the rest of the chips I got from Armin. All but the purple 25¢ BM were counterfeits made after the casinos closed. Larry checked each chip against what was actually sold by BJ to each casino. Some of the casinos had never been a BJ customer.

Two years later I got the $1 and $5 BM scanned below from Armin. They were not in the original bunch I got from Armin. By the time I got around to checking the BJ records for them the records had been shredded.

Fast forwarded to last year. David and I found what we believe were Borlands own sample boxes of chips. It was a bonanza of different chips Borland had made and sold all over the world.
There were several of each chip of the NV counterfeits, weaves, acrest, dicards, and Nevada molds, both hot stamped and inlayed.

In the box were several of the $1 and $5 BM chips scanned below.
Comments:
There is no doubt the purple 25¢ was supplied to BM by Borland. It is one of a number of live chips supplied to casinos by Borland. It is the only NV real value chip, I know was supplied by Borland. Borland did sell the Sahara Vegas roulette chips.
IMO there is a 95% chance the $1 and $5 below was also supplied to BM by Borland. I say 95% only because I can't access the records. Too bad I did not get them from Armin the same day I got the purple 25¢.

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