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I recently purchased a number of illegal chips and floor sweepings from a lady in Chicago. Her father was a hustler in the Chicago area and picked the chips up in his ramblings. Many of them going back to the 1930's Chez Paree, a major illegal operation in Chicago.
We have never had much about "Floor Sweeping's" in the "Illegal Of The Day" postings now numbering 260 different posts. Many of them are reposted here.
http://www.marlowcasinochips.com/links/genetrimble/genetrimble.htm
Most clay chips including the Hat and Cane molds were made at the Burt Company in Maine until Paulson opened in 1964. Burt did not hot stamp chips. Burt felt hot stamps were too easy to counterfeit. They made and shipped blanks to the old distributors.
Floor Sweepings: When a distributor ran a hot stamp order they normally ran a few extras called an "Overrun." Sometimes only 1 side sometimes both sides. There are also bad hits with hot stamps. Usually these chips wound up on the floor, hence "Floor Sweepings." 
The floor sweepings would then be over stamped to test future hot stamps before the actual run. I have some that were hit with 3 and 4 different hot stamps. Only showing the 8 new ones, I got in the recent purchase.
AJA-Albert J Anderson, walk in order 1947 in Chicago at Taylor Co. Very interesting order, lots of colors and denoms. Two of our team did some prelim research on it. Nothing! looks like the guy did not exist. Maybe an alias? The scarlet chip should be a $20 chip, so this one is a floor sweeping for the $5 blue chip.
RB on the back is the Rose Bowl in La Salle County, IL, 1947. Al Capone was involved in the La Salle County illegals. RB chip was featured in "Illegal Of The Day" Illinois 22 posted on 11/11/11.
http://www.marlowcasinochips.com/links/genetrimble/illegaloftheday/TumbleInnIL.pdf
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AJA is the right color and denom on this one but it was an uneven hit with the right side of the hot stamp and became a floor sweeping for the 424 run of chips.
424 is for a Moose Loom in Berwyn, Illinois in 1947. Another bad hit as the hot stamp should be yellow or blue, and not smeared.
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Rose Bowl again over stamped 424. The blue 424 hot stamp was for the yellow chip only. Back was double hit with 25ยข hot stamp for the RB chip.
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JPC 1945- Hyde Park Club Venice, IL was featured in "Illegal Of The Day" Illinois 9 posted on 1/9/11. IMO it was a good one.
http://www.marlowcasinochips.com/links/genetrimble/illegaloftheday/HydeParkClubIL.pdf
Front is double struck with JPC $1.00 the correct hot stamp for the color. Back is $25.00. No $25.00 on the JPC order.
M in Circle under the $25.00 on back, is Tom Moore's Castle Hills Club, San Antonio, TX, 1956. It was featured in "Illegal Of The Day" Texas 19 posted on 4/19/13. No $25 on that order.
The same exact M in Circle was actually made for 5 different people in IL, MI, CT, and TX from 1945 -1956. Chip colors and inserts are different. I got to do a "pick-em" on this one and I picked Texas.
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D&T- D&T Smoke Shop Bloomington, IN 1947. You can barely see the D&T. Looks like the D&T was removed with very fine sandpaper or maybe a small knife. It was done with care. Not sure why, maybe to see if chip could be reused.
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Horse Head, EM Cobb Henderson, KY 1959. Horse Head both sides, Should be denom on back. One side over stamped with 10. No 10 denom on order. Horse Head hot stamp was actually made for 3 different people KY, MS, and IN, 1942-1960. No 10 on any of the orders.
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SS, Virgil Star FT Wayne, IN 1947 The 2nd S is a weak hit. Blank on back. Red should have been SS both sides.
2,000 chips. IMO more than likely an illegal operation. A quick look into Virgil tells us his last name is Starr with (2 R's) and like most able bodied men enlisted in the military in 1942 at the age of 43. What was Virgil up to in 1947?
I need the real SS chip. Cough it up if you have a trader.
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Chip on the left has been double stamped maybe triple stamped, both sides. Chip on right is the correct stamp. It is a tough one to figure out even with a magnifying glass. After an hour going through all Taylor records starting with B or R and ending in a B or R, I am pretty sure I figured it out.
BSR, Blue Star Restaurant Waukegan, IL 1948.
I need the real BSR chip. Cough it up if you have a trader.
Floor sweepings are a part of the history of our chips and a lot of fun figuring out the hot stamps, some much harder to figure out than others. I have some that were hit 3 or more times and fall under that old Italian phrase from Joe Pesci.
"Forget about it."
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