Yes, I had a lot of those inlaid playing card chips. Never cared for them. Sold virtually all of them except I kept the full deck on white chips:
The ace of spades looks like:
I don't know how or why they came about -- I thought it was just to dress up the chips. They came in red, white and blue.
I never had that many of the other type. Thought it might have something to do with which suit was trump. Maybe table markers in a big bridge or whist tournament.
Robert
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Gary Cooper (r w/ tie) playing poker in "Saratoga Trunk" (1945).
http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/StillsA_TopMaleStars.htm
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