I’m a big fan of Robert Eisenstadt’s excellent chip mold design website. He has a list of almost every embossed clay chip edge mold design that has ever been used on gambling chips. In his guide he excludes “house molds”, those in which a casino had chip mold cups made with an edge design consisting of their name and/or logo.

Inspired by Eisenstadt's website, I’ve been trying to collect at least one example of every clay chip edge mold design (excluding house molds) and have been studying his website. I notice that he lists the “Candelabra” or “Trident” mold as NOT being a house mold, but one used more generally.

You can see it here. Go to the very last chip listed: http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/molddesign_manmade.htm

The thing is that I have never seen this mold design used by a casino other than by Stakis casinos in Great Britain or Gibraltar I think, whose logo is identical to the chip.

So my question to you all is, shouldn’t this really be considered a house mold and not a distributor’s mold?