I'm certainly interested in having this discussion in our hobby! I am uneasy with the seemingly growing casual acceptance of these reworked gaming chips. Personal chips, fantasy, brothel, promo chips or custom poker sets are legitimate items but when you start slagging material off historical artifacts and changing their appearence, it is indeed something different.

Quite a bit of harm was done to our hobby by altered brass cores not too long ago and potshots over that still richochet around the board today. Same guy, same process, new hat? Guess he's got apprentices nowdays also. Busy crafting one-of-a-kind and custom pieces. How far does all this remove these "new" chips from the fraud that was perpetrated on our hobby back in the day? Let's not forget that there were more than mere so-called prototype colors that left ye olde workshop. I can't forget this stuff.

I can rationalise collecting Bill Borland's work but I'd only be dancing on the head of a pin to justify legitimizing these "new" Whelen (et al!)brass cores.