Here is the complete write up on the chip: http://www.oldpokerchips.com/NonNevada/Tiger.htm
The chip was made for William F. Kenny, a Tammany Hall (Tammany Tigers) power player in the 1920s. Note that I have included pictures of the building at the end of the writeup. Kenny's Tiger Room sat atop his building in NYC. The room was 2 stories high and 300 feet long. The man could spend money. The following is from a New Yorker Magazine article from 2005:
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