A little different post today. My first love is Illegal’s but I do have 30,000 different chips.

These are my second love.
And it’s still about the history.

Most Of you will know who Bill Borland was. If not here is the story.
http://www.marlowcasinochips.com/links/davidspragg/davidspragg.htm

I actually started the Borland collection in 1995.

David Spragg joined me in putting the story and the collection together a number of years ago. We are joint owners of the collection.

Bud Jones records were searched to establish the providence of the counterfeits in this collection. His son in law came to LV with Bud from Kansas City after the breakup of the Christy Jones Co. Larry was a friend and a club member. He was also the only salesman Bud had back in those days. Rest easy friend.

With the addition of the 16 below chips the collection now totals:

Borland Counterfeit chips 118. Mostly NV counterfeits of real chips.
Borland Fantasy chips 108 and is complete as far as we can tell. Does not include 1 error chip we found.
Borland others 565
Total Borland chips to date, 791.

The hunt for Borland chips continues but I am thinking we are getting close to the end.

I got the 16 below from Doug Deems yesterday. Special thanks to Doug for adding to the collection.
Providence of the chips are not in doubt. We have an email from the son of the guy that bought the Rocco’s Pizza chips

Gene,
I have emails from Mario Caponi confirming that he bought the chips from Bill Borland around 1990. They were a gift for his father, Rocco, who had, and still has a weekly poker game in Akron, Ohio. Rocco is now 79 yrs old and playing poker weekly with these chips. He could not recall the amount he ordered. Rocco opened the Pizza parlor in Akron in 1953. It is still open, managed by his son, Mario.
Doug

The 16 chips came from the Jerry Wall collection. Jerry owned half of Borland’s store in LV.

For those who don’t know who Jerry was. Probably the biggest (both his actual size and number of chips he had) collector/dealer we ever had. It took two large U-hauls to move his collection after he got sick. It went to his kids in the PNW, then Gamblers General Store, then a 3rd party, and finally Spinetti’s in LV.

Borland also published the Borland Blue Book, about chips. One of our first reference books.

He also published a Las Vegas Dining and Entertainment Guide. (Borland was a Maître D at the Dunes, Top Of The Sea.) I ate there in the early 1980’s. What a view!

I have a copy of the guide and about a 2 inch pile of correspondence from many casinos of the day about ads in the magazine.
The Sands, Harrah’s, Claridge Hi Ho in Atlantic City, Fitzgerald’s, Reno, Golden Nugget, etc.