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The Chip Board Archive 17

Plea to Convention goers: Olivia's Poker Hall NCVs

I posted last month looking for the Olivia's Poker Hall NCV 1 and 5 chips and said at the time that I'd repost just before the convention in the hope that some kind, eagle-eyed member might see the chips for sale at the convention and be able to pick them up to trade with me or sell to me. I cannot attend the convention as it is at the same time as an annual pofessional development seminar that I must attend for work reasons. Here is a slightly revised repeat of most of what I posted at the time:

I'm looking for the Olivia's Poker Hall NCV 1 and 5 tournament chips (scan below) and have had no luck to date. I picked up the other four NCV chips on eBay for about $5 each a while back but have been completely unsuccessful in my subsequent efforts so I'm raising the bar and offering to trade some sought-after movie prop chips and some collectible fantasy chips in trade. The traders are shown in the photo in the original thread (link below).
I am willing to trade a $1, $5, $25 or $100 Chesterfield Club prop chip (your choice of which one) from the movie Rounders for either of the two Olivia's I'm missing.

In the alternative, I'm willing to trade a sample set of all three MARVEL Paulson chips for either of the two NCV Olivia's described.

Most people will be familiar with the Rounders props and what they sell for on eBay or elsewhere, but for those of you who are not familiar with the superhero ones here’s some background on the MARVEL chips:

Dufferin Games Ltd. had a worldwide licensing agreement with Marvel Enterprises, Inc. that was announced on July 19, 2001. They were one of the few places in Canada that sold any kind of good quality poker chips at the time and the only one I have ever heard of that sold any Paulson chips - and then only these Marvel ones. They started selling the chips in 2002. They were snapped up by Canadians willing to pay to get real Paulsons to make sets for home games.

Not long after they entered the agreement with Marvel and produced a limited number of the sets of chips, the Dufferin Games chain of 21 stores went bankrupt and was closed, meaning that no more chips were produced. I think most of them went into sets for home games, which means that we don't see them for sale very often.

I'm hoping that those who are going to the convention will keep my post in mind.

I'm also interested in getting more of the other Olivia's NCV denominations after I get these two to complete my set. The Olivia's chips are my all-time favorite chips!

Thanks for looking,

Neil


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