It could be a quantity thing; meaning way too many chips, jetons and plaques turning up all at once. An example being when I first found the CH plaques in low quantities and only one or two rare denominations, there was a lot of interest and everything sold fast and then when Mr. V. came along with his inventory things quickly changed.

As far as I remember most UK material was always in demand, especially London, and really did well after I explained to Tom S. how much inventory from closed casinos was being destroyed and with proof in the Stakis letters with just their interest of the casinos they were buying up and destroying chips by the hundreds of thousands. Then, when I found the low quantities of Sporting Club with proof of low production numbers from BG, I was selling the 3-pc. sets at $1800 with the lowest denominations pulling $1000... and just about that time the EU dream becomes reality and I had casino operators pounding on my door (proof in letters) to buy their inventory... and I turned the majority of them down because I saw the dangers of all that stuff flooding the market and got out except for the Oostende and Dinant material still being of interest at the time with the large size 250.000 and the Dinant Flag Series and when that started dropping off in interest BH took it over when I dropped out completely and then he finds the CC material and even more quantity hits the market and the lack of interest simply continued on. I have since walked away from new finds in huge quantities that I know for a fact will be undisturbed for another twenty to thirty years. I mentioned it to a few folks who also know where it is stashed over 20 years ago and they agreed to let it stay put as well.

I think one more Playboy inventory will surely break out killing that market completely... and it is only too bad that the VL plaques surfaced so late in the game. I (anyone) could have moved those plaques for 3X what they sold for if they would have surfaced earlier and, my thinking has not changed in agreeing with Tom S. about higher denominations being made for the game and kept hush-hush. It would not have been the first time a gaming jurisdiction did not know what was going on behind closed doors... Tom had to have gotten that information from someone very close to or actually Victor... BTW, Chicago is completely dry and the last of what they had were the BJ training chips I located there which was a super-low quantity that I was paying $100 per set for because I knew for sure how many were in that one desk drawer (all archived here).

You ran a good shop with your inventory and held nothing back and In my book that demands the highest respect...