16,000 wow, I didn't know it was that many. I thought he only made two or three thousand all together! Did he do this as his full time job? I thought he was the maître d’ at the Dunes? He must have hired help I guess right?

Maybe with hired help, he could have done the 16,000, which to me seems unlikely, how much would he have made off these chips? Maybe a $1.00 each? It doesn't seem like it would have been worth his while to make maybe $4,000 a year, less if he hired help. Plus it seems like there would be variations in the hot stamp alignment right?

Did anyone find out if he had any other machine rather then just the bench hot stamper? What happened to all his stuff after he passed away? Maybe he did have some sort of two sided hot stamping machine, that would seem to make more sense to me.

Todd