On August 3, 1995, I received several calls from chippers asking if I had any of the chips. I called the casino office asking if they had any, but they told me that they didn't because there wasn't anywhere on shore to store them safely and that they were all on board in the casino vault. I then called the distributor, Summit Casino Products, and had a long conversation with the owner who also told me that they didn't have anything other than one example of each denomination in their file (that's where the $500 chip came from). The next day I called the casino office again asking if they could call me should they either find any chips or redeem what may have walked in the 30 day period the casino was in operation. They said yes, and did call me a few days later putting me in contact with two people who had some chips from their last outing. The next time I heard from the casino was when their second boat started sailing (they used CHIPCO, INT'L. chips on that boat). They did have a few customers who returned to the new casino with the first issue chips; they redeemed them, and called me with the good news. Not all that many, though; about 10-12 of the $1, $2.50, $5 and $25 chips. I also placed an ad in a few local newspapers, but only a few people called me who had $1 chips. There are a few threads in the archives regarding approx. quantity estimates by Mark Lighterman... as far as what might have walked in those 30 days, and a few posts from Florida chippers saying that they never did make it out on the boat. If there's other info or if there are hundreds of boxes of chips known by the same folks who always know these things, I'm sure we'll hear from them shortly...

That's it...

JB