No, I didn't discover any new chips, but I did find something interesting in a gaming guide I recently bought.

I was offered this guide and I believe another item or two within the last two or three years, at what I believed was a reasonable price, but I didn't have any free hobby funds at the time. So, I passed. I just won an auction for the guide for a very low price. I scanned the whole document and found something interesting on the fourth page:

Look at the chips shown! I have never seen chips like these in any guide or at any other time. They clearly look like simpler versions of the famous parrot chips from the Aruba Caribbean when it first opened:

Two things to note, though. First, they are supposed to be roulette chips. The page describes how to play roulette, and the section with the pictures describes the different colors of roulette chips. The roulette chips at the Aruba Caribbean in its early years were hot stamped and had no denomination:

You will also note that, like the $1 parrot chips, they have the H mold. The drawing shows chips on a hub mold:

Now, I know this is probably just a drawing, but it is interesting that the drawing shows chips with a real chip mold, and one that differs from their actual chips. I almost wonder if they were considering chips like these at one time. The use of the parrots also helps date the guide, since the Aruba Caribbean switched to Ewing mold chips with the starfish (I think) design:

I have read in an auction that these chips were ordered in 1972, but I have no idea where that date comes from or how accurate it is. Still, it means the guide is from the earlier years of the casino.

I don't know that it means much, but I found it interesting.

Michael Siskin