"That is to say on the 'Nevada' mold chips, the word NEVADA appears directly at the top of the chip, and in the case of the 'DieCard' mold, the 2spot/5 spot dice appear at the top. This alignment occurs on both sides of the chip. Legitimate hot-stamps will not normally be so aligned (unless it happened by accident)."

I believe the above refers to the Borland counterfeits.
There were no Toti-Gaughn samples in Borland samples we found. There would have been no reason for him to make them unless he was actually making a reorder for Toti-Gaughn. I doubt that as no sample was kept.

I suspect it just got aligned in a normal run by Bud Jones before he sold the mold to Borland.

Toti-Gaughn school was open many years and I would guess there were several runs of chips for them. Chip color runs will vary and a lot of use will darken used chips from body oils.