D.D.W

After piecing different parts together from the stamps...

The stamp reads:

HELSINKI BAR & GRILL
Saura B...?
402 E Broadway
Fintown Butte Montana

All of the Red diamond/square chips had the Hotstamps worn right off, but I noticed there was one one that had a faint Hot Stamp, It reads BOARD OF TRADE both sides.

There were 12 or so of that mold worn clean, but the one was visible as shown. A couple of these reds had the same faded ink stamp as the wave chips.

Michale Knapp emailed me "In checking Steve Goodrich's Montana book, I found that he attributes DDW to Billings. Could be. Maybe DDW, whoever he was, later moved to Butte and ran a table at the Helsinki, and that's where the rubber stamps came in."

"Thing about MT chips is that poker tables are usually leased out to an operator, who pays a space lease to the bar owner, and the operator's name or initials are on the chips. They seem to have no connection with the bar they're used in, so you have to have independent information as to who the operator was and where he ran the table. Couple that with the fact that in many cases, the same operator ran tables at several different locations, and solid identification can be tough!"

Thanks for everybody's help on this one, as far as I know we are still looking for the ID the D.D.W, running theories are welcome. I have dupes on most of these, if anyone wants them please email me.