Ed Hertel sent me the EJR chip a few months ago. It always bugs me to have a chip without a Club name when I know it had to have been an illegal operation. I’ve had the ID for years on a typed card Ed forwarded to me, back when we paid $5 each for an ID. Several of us sent for ID’s and then pooled them.

Enough of that:

Texas:

Esquire Junior Club

Enter our “Friend Of The Hobby:”

The E JR chips were delivered to Griffice’s residential address. You and Ed probably already know this but at the time of the E JR order Griffice was operating the Esquire Junior Club which was located at 2026 1/2 Post Office.

I notice the ID you sent says that Griffice had several orders of DLC hubs sent to the De Luxe Club in 1947, ‘48, ‘49 & ‘50. The De Luxe Club was located at 2017 and later 2019 Post Office--across the street from Esquire JR.

I happened to see that there’s some O’Neil & Co. dice orders for the De Luxe Club made by Paul Harris in 1953—this is the same Paul Harris that we think probably ordered the Clock Club chips in 1954. The two places would have been a block away from each other.

My note: I posted the story on The Clock Club and the 2 Paul Harris’s In “Illegal Of The Day” Texas 11 on 3/2/12.

These 4 orders all about a week or two apart:

Griffice also ordered these; delivery address was his residence at the time; delivery date overlaps dates on DLC hubs:

Griffice ordered chips for The Alamo Club. He was an active guy in the late 1940’s-early 50’s.

I need this chip. Cough it up if you have a trader.