Tonight's episode had an antique gambling kit supposedly belonging to J.D. Borthwick who was a known writer who died in 1900. The gun expert that Rick called in to evaluate it mentioned that the same type of gambling kit was often put together to look like it really belonged to someone famous, and that you had to look at each item in the kit individually to see if it fit. The kit had stacks of red, blue and white inlaid monogram chips which he totally ignored in determining the authenticity of the kit as a whole.

I'm not an inlaid monogram expert, but the chips looked to me to be the type that Dale Seymour shows were made beginning around 1908, which would seem to make them not fitting the time period for the kit. Wondering if anybody here saw the chips and could put a date on them.