Greg ---- took me a little looking to find these. The original thread about the Ore House chips starts with this 1999 post by Terry Lazarus:

http://www.thechipboard.com/cgi-bin/bbs521/tcbarc02.pl/read/24998

Later, in February 2001, Terry posted another message in which he made a brief mention of the true story about these chips:

http://www.thechipboard.com/cgi-bin/bbs521/tcbarc04.pl/read/117477

He said, in part, about chips that were supposedly 30 years old, "I found out the chips were closer to 30 months old." There is more to the story, which of course Terry could tell best.

BTW, you do remember that you have this chip (and the rest of the set) in your collection, don't you?!

Jim