Hi Steven, I’ll defer to your expertise, but I’ll give a tiny bit of more information, since I’m the one who acquired the estate lot from the collector’s grandchildren.

Again, you’ve probably forgotten more than I know, but thankfully the collector kept extremely detailed acquisition records, and these specific chips that have the Sands inlay have traceable provenance to February 1981, which is when his records indicate he purchased them.

Another set that came with the estate lot are small crown inlaid chips from The El Cortez, and his acquisition records for those chips date back to March of 1976.

There are several other Nevada casino lots in the overall purchase, and the latest acquisition records of any of them was Dec 1983 for a lot of Mapes Casino small crown chips.

Either way, reproductions or not, they’re quite lovely! Thanks for the perspective on the 90s rush on reproductions, I have about 1400 of the King’s Crown fantasy chips from that era.