Ex the Gene Trimble collection & being sold for the estate. 3 sets of pasted up prototypes for club tourney chips that were not approved by Gaming.

Going back to the era of these chips Paulson used to sometimes make a paste up set for initial gaming approval before making notched samples. Before they moved production to Mexico under GPI the cost of producing notched samples was very high - around $150 per chip, and the customer was expected to pay.
These are professionally made, same both sides, with full edge design, for making by BetG on ceramic chips. Ultimately the final (different) designs were made as clay on Paulson chips.

Gaming approval was a 2 or 3 stage process. Firstly a 'paper copy' - which back then was a physical high quality print (referred to as a waxed copy).
Gaming would indicate whether the design was ok subject to the prototype and/or notched sample matching that design exactly.

In the case of the 3 designs below, the designs supplied on paper were rejected and the unique prototypes did not get so far as being submitted.

I'm going to offer the 3 sets individually here by auction, with the auctions ending Sunday May 13th midnight PST.
Please refer to them as Excalibur, Orleans 1, Orleans 2.

Please post your bids in this thread or email them to me if you want to remain anonymous.

If someone wants to organise a 'group bid' to win these and donate them to the club/museum then I am in on that. Up to someone else to put it forward and organise.
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