Thanks Larry.
Now, I have The Gaming Table and the Official US Casino Chip Price Guide on order. I did not purchase The Chip Rack as I believe I want to focus on California chip collecting for now. I really love the look of old hotstamped card room chips. That being said I had not seen any California specific guides in my brief research of the hobby. I've just done a google search now and found "Eastman's Illustrated Guide to California Card Room Chips & Checks-1998". Is this the California guide you used? Whichever guide(s) I need for California I would like to order.

*I had understood that finding a "quantity" of a chip would greatly lower its rarity and therefore value.
Once amount is confirmed I will share.
When someone finds/confirms a new quantiy of chips, or even a new chip, where do they "let it be known"?
Just here?

Last important question to understand the hobby: if a quantity of 50 for a chip is known, then another 50 are found to exist, does the value "in general" drop by half since the population doubled?
Or is it a lot harder to determine due to other factors as well? Is there a guide to the R-ratings and how they affect value?

Thanks a lot
-Rene