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for sale Patented ARCHER chips 1947:Brown& Bigelow $10

for sale 6 different chips for $10 plus $3 postage = $13 total. Poker chip collectors might like these plastic chips, which the "Antique Gambling Chips" book shows was patented in 1947 by Brown & Bigelow. St Paul, Minnesota. The chips feature the patented archer on one side, and the imprint on the reverse. They were sold in boxes as shown below. PayPal OK. Return priv. for sale

The picture below about the patent is from the 1985 edition of the book. It is also on page 26 of the 1998 edition.


"Brown & Bigelow is a publishing company based in Saint Paul, Minnesota that produces advertising specialties, or promotional products, such as clocks, pens, cocktail spoons with corkscrew and cap-lifter, and advertising calendars. The company was founded in 1896 by Herbert Huse Bigelow and Hirm Brown. [It hot-stamped customer names and advertising on many give-away products.] ... In 1925, Brown & Bigelow began a tradition by publishing calendars for the Boy Scouts of America ... illustrated by Norman Rockwell. ... In 1936, then president Charlie Ward paid the large amount of $10,000 to Maxfield Parrish for exclusive rights to his work "Peaceful Valley."... Brown and Bigelow also published art, including works by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, Rolf Armstrong, Gil Elvgren, Earl Moran, Vaughn Alden Bass, Mabel Rollins Harris, and Norman Rockwell. In the late 1940s, it was one of the biggest calendar printers in the world, employing some of the United States' best pin-up artists and putting calendars into an estimated 50 million homes. ... Ward served time in prison for tax evasion where he became close friends with Morris Rudensky, infamous safe-cracker. The company was also notable for the fact that it hired hundreds of ex-convicts.," per Wikipedia.

Robert


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