~~~ Riverboats after I found the "Texas Belle" chip (complete event archived here) I found no mention of that Riverboat.

I bought it from a person who in 1947, returned to the US after serving in WWII. He and his buddy had just stepped foot in NOLA, when approached by a street vendor and each of them bought a mounted chip. I bought his chip and his buddy returned to Hawaii, with his.

Both Phil Flanaghan and Ken Chopping; two well known Ivory chip experts, told me of their research and how those "commemoratives" and "recent creations" were sold on the waterfront in such cities as Boston, NY and San Francisco.

I sold mine many years ago.

A few months ago I was approached by a vendor who had several of what I first thought to be Ivory 5s 25s and Bees but, were probably made in the 1880s when Celluloid was popular and, I doubt not to dupe anyone and just less expensive sets. No signs of of elephant tusk ivory, whatsoever... but still a turnoff in seeing them.