... and when I was buying up as many plaques as possible from around the World, I received this letter from Glasgow (It should give the student a pretty good idea of what isn't around in quantity ):

5 October ....

Dear Mr Benedict

My department is responsible for the security and destruction of obsolete table chips and plaques. Over the past two to three years our 19 casinos have re-chipped, and we have destroyed literally hundreds of thousands of obsolete chips and plaques [...and the letter goes on, of course; and it was very good ].

. .....
.... .. .......