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for sale 5 new old poker chips discovery~$12 delivered

for sale 5 wooden gambling poker chips for $12 delivered ~ about 1937 (copyright date of Frisko game) ~ PayPal OK ~ Return privileges ~ new old find which should be coded (small paper chips have been coded, for example).

You get the four 1" chips with the 4 playing cards suits (both sides are the same) PLUS the one 7/8" Frisko chip ("FRISKO" on one side/hobby horse on the reverse side).

Incidentally, I have two Frisko games for sale. $35 each plus postage.



These wooden chips were made by the old The Embossing Company, Albany NY (1870-1955, when it was sold to Halsem Products Co, Chicago). The company has an interesting history.

The company was founded by John Wesley Hyatt (1837-1920), the famous American inventor and manufacturer who received several hundred patents over his lifetime. His most notable accomplishment was inventing and patenting celluloid, an offshoot of the search to find a suitable substitute for ivory in billiard balls. Celluloid had many commercial uses. Hyatt formed such companies as the Albany Billiard Ball Company, the Albany Dental Plate Company, and eventually the Celluloid Manufacturing Company in Newark NJ in 1873.

The Embossing Company was famous for its myriad, mostly wood products, many of them toys and teaching aids for children. The company was most famous for its building blocks (American Logs) and alphabet blocks, but made many dominoes editions, as well as checkers, building and design sets, "Bottoms Up", "Flappers Fortunes", backgammon, mah jongg and chess.


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George Sanders (center) in "Bitter Sweet" (1940). Is the woman Jeanette MacDonald?
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