Westen Charles sent me the AR chips a few months ago. My first thought was "Wow." The year is right for the "Era Of The Illegal's." 1100 chips, good size order, love the fancy hot stamp, MS was a hotbed of illegal's. What more can you ask for?

Adren Robertson
Ruleville, MS
6/9/53 - 1100 chips
Hand written card. (IMO, that is kind of strange)

OK, take it away boys.

From Ed Hertel.

Tom did some looking into this guy and found very little.
Adren C. Robertson
Military enlistment 30 April 1941, Camp Shelby, MS; born 1908. (My note: Should have served in WW II.)
1940 Sunflower County MS census, age 31, white male, living with parents; farm laborer.

I think it's a dead-end.

From Tom Henderson our resident Mississippi expert.

Looks like Ed was right about the AR hub chip ordered by Adren Robertson in 1953: it’s a dead end. I finally found his 1981 obituary (attached) but skimming through the local newspaper turned up nothing else about him or his business. Contacts in the county haven’t turned up anything either.

But thanks to you guys I have another Mississippi chip.

My notes: Well quite a letdown. All we have is when Robertson was born, US Army service, he more than likely picked cotton, and when he died. What the heck did he do with the chips? Obit says he was a retired merchant but we found no evidence of that. Only guess I have is he might have played poker after church on Sunday.

Not all research returns a big story but if you are a collector of illegal chips you want whatever history is out there.

New Chicago, Illinois "Illegal Of The Day" has been received and is being readied for posting. I know you mid-west boys have been having withdrawal pains.

At least 5 colors known. If you don't have them, start looking.