At 11 PM (ET) tonight my big rare Crest & Seal BOLO auction is over:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/161108420672

The 3 chips are:
¶ rare -- no collector had any of these chips till I came up with them. Only three sets known, and this is the last set to be sold/auctioned!
¶ interesting name -- we still don't know why the place was named "bolo." Lots of meanings of the word.
¶ good detective work finding out about the chips.

We only knew from the USPC Co records that they were shipped to C. Z. Seelig Co, Wallace, Idaho, in 1929. Seelig was a department store-like business that ordered the chips for a customer.

A metal token (see below) let us know that The Bolo was located 7 miles from Wallace in a small mining town of Mullan, Idaho. Then newspaper articles (reproduced on R Hanover's page at http://www.oldpokerchips.com/NonNevada/BOLO.htm ) told us:
¶ Mullan was a corrupt Prohibition era small town of 3000 people where the officials were paid off from the illegal businesses (liquor, gambling) in town.
¶ that the Bolo had a tobacco shop (cigars and soft drinks) in the front room, which led to a gambling den (table games, poker and slot machines) in the next room, and from there down a few steps into a liquor bar. It was next to the Hotel Billberg.
¶ Some 200 people were arrested on Federal liquor charges, and in December 1929 (two months after the BOLO chips were ordered) 24 residents of Mullan were convicted, including the town mayor, sheriff, councilmen and the operator of The Bolo.

Robert
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Glenda Farrell (blonde) & Mary Brian gambling at craps table in "Girl Missing" (1933)!
http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/StillsC_FemaleStars.htm