Interesting story. One of many, I guess. You put a chip on eBay and someone does a Google search for a relatives' name or whatever, and you get an ID for the chip!

I put this chip on this message board about a month ago. All I knew was the mfg card, and gained no info here. So I put it on eBay as a UFC.
I only have 4 chips left. My current auction:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/161382837993

Well, tonight this woman emails me:
"My name is [so and so] and my grandfather was Morris Radinsky. If you would like some information on his club in Seattle, give a call at 424 xxx xxxx. I bid on one of the chips."

So I called her and now know (exaggeration?):
She said he was a big-time guy in Seattle in the 1930s-40's
¶ he was a professional gambler, often in Alaska.
¶ he used those chips in his (he was the owner/boss) Turf Club in what was then the "Pike's Area" of Seattle. Tobacco-like shop in the front and gambling in the back. She does not know why the chips say "DR," but said maybe it was named after his father, Daniel Radinsky, a rabbi. She said Morris had good connections with the Seattle police, who liked him because he notified them when Al Capone's cronies were in town trying to set up there. .. ... A lot of his friends in Alaska gambled there.
¶ Morris also owned the "Esquire Club" in Seattle in the 30s, a legit dinner-dancing club.
¶ according to the granddaughter, Morris was also a diamond merchant and bookie.
¶ had something to do with bringing in booze during Prohibition.

Robert