In my role as a California ChipGuide admin, I’ve been researching chips that were sold by T. R. King and the Mason Co. to California locations. I studied the 1942 T. R. King order card for this chip and deduced that M. B. Page must be Milton B. “Farmer” Page.

(Images Courtesy of the ChipGuide)

Milton “Farmer” Page was a Los Angeles gambling kingpin and early Las Vegas casino pioneer. I created a California Milton Farmer ChipGuide page to collect chips bought by him in California, but for which we don’t know where they were used. I did a little research and put together a brief biography that just touches the surface of how extensive his gambling partnerships were. If you go to the listing the blue text are hyperlinks to some of the gambling joints that he co-owned. ChipGuide page here; http://cgcm.themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=CALALL&v=3685303716

Farmer Page moved to Las Vegas in 1942. He picked up the large crown M&M chips on 7/2/1942. He was announced ten days later as personally operating the “Colony Casino” in Las Vegas in a Las Vegas Review Journal announcement published on 7/21/1942 (below).

The Chip Rack does not list any chips for the casino, and the ChipGuide has neither chips or nor any other memorabilia. The Gaming Table identifies a "Colony Club" as being open from 1942 to 1944 on Boulder Highway. I'm guessing that it might be the same place.

The date of the chip order makes me think that the chips might have something to do with the Colony Casino/Colony Club, but the M&M monogram makes no sense to me. Also the chips are not denominated, which may be more often found for illegal casinos in California than licensed casinos in Nevada. If anyone has any theories about where the M&M chips were used or about what chips they used at the Colony Casino, I would love to hear about it.