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for sale Sylcree Club, GA Illegals for sale

These chips were a new find from an estate sale 2 years ago.
The Sylcree Club was located at Five Points, on the Dougherty-Worth county line halfway between Albany and Sylvester, Georgia. The Southern Belle Lounge was close by. 'RWW' had a piece of the action in both places at least. The 'SC' chips are from the Sylcree and the 'S' from Southern Belle. Seems like RWW was a real player in this bustling area and his monogrammed chips could well have been used wherever he had a piece of the action. A newspaper article by Vic Smith, an Albany resident for 27 years from the 1950's to 1970's describes some of the illegal clubs operating in the area around 1958.
A link to that article, with full details on these chips and their ID's can be found here.
http://www.marlowcasinochips.com/links/davidspragg/sylcree/sylcree.htm

All I have left available from the original find is a couple of sets of the 9 chips shown below, and then some odd singles.
I will sell the sets of 9 for $40 shipped.
If anyone wants odd singles, they will be $6 each shipped.

Email me if interested in these.
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(both sides shown of the 50c, all others are same both sides)


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