Well, the mustard SSC (Sal Sagev Casino) chip can come off of the "extras" list, because we have the red one...

The blue Four Queens arodie will always be a favorite, because it has a story !!

We were at a flea market/collectibles/antique show many years ago. We'd gone to several tables without finding a thing. We stopped at another table and we were looking at a display of shot glasses. At the same moment George & I both looked down and caught sight of an 8x10 frame filled with chips! I think there were 28 chips, and the face value was around $26-ish (mostly $1 chips, and a few fractionals). The seller was asking around $100 (to the best of my recollection). Keep in mind that this was in the very early days of our collecting, and had rarely (if ever) paid over $20 for anything. I'd spent more time with the reference books than George had, and he asked me if I had any idea what the chips were worth. I must've been having an adrenalin rush, because my mind wouldn't function at all! The one and only thing I could tell George about value of any of the chips was the Four Queens arodie...I couldn't tell him what it might be worth, but I could tell him that I'd seen that chip in one of Bill Akeman's magazine auctions...and it was so high-priced that I was sure we'd never have one. After a little haggling, I think he paid the seller around $60 or so. (The Flamingo Capri fractional in the "extras" section came from the same frame...in fact, there were two of those ).

Once we were back in the car, I took the frame apart and happily discovered that the chips were NOT glued to the black velvet background. A couple of the inlays had gotten a little discolored from the velvet, but not too badly. There was also a notation (which I now regret throwing away ) on the back of the frame insert that mentioned the chips were collected in January of 1967 (I think), during a trip to Vegas, while Chicago was having a snowstorm!

More than you wanted to know...but you have to love a chip with a story!!

Here's a few of the chips from the frame...

The Las Vegas Club is one that was discolored , and the other side of the Mint chip is a similar shade of formerly-known-as-white. Luckily the Lady Luck inlay wasn't discolored .