Based on what I consider to be accurate, here in ChipGuide; that the club had four wheels during the years of operation and, no matter how limited the space ([ played some pretty small basement rooms in France with four wheels in a five meter square space) I can easily see and know for a fact by what I collect and what I was told by some casino owners and backed up by a couple historians, that just one whee in a room could have and had, two to three inventories in a far less period of time that Portsmouth was in operation and, even applying these simple known facts that backup inventories exist and stretch that to two, three and four wheels leaves very little doubt that there can be at least eight inventories (series) of Roulette chips where some wheels inventories were virtually unknown as with a most recent Roulette find of mine from a room that I played in for several years (Lucaya), along with other chippers who were shocked to see a fourth set... It happens and we know why and, even considering a lack of interest in a French wheels and considering American wheels were live during this known period of operation, that most houses in Europe and the UK, post-WWI. we're mostly in business to attract visitors from far off lands well after 20 and 30 years in offering them something a little different than what they saw back home and even if not all that popular with locals... So, to see three series as we do on our catalog (our meaning all), as the Black Bunny, Red Bunnh and Black Bunny in a lunette, could easilly be a drop in a bucket as to what's out there on a whole, clay and jeton Roulettes from Portsmouth
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