Travis: A short report on this chip was listed in 2 auctions in 1998--Gaming Archeology and CCGTCC Convention Auctions. A gentleman whom I worked with in Atlantic City had a few of the $5 and $25 chips that his father had given him. His father was a waiter/dealer in a restaurant/illegal casino (break-out joint) both in New Jersey and Singer Island (I think) now West Palm Beach. His father was a dealer in an illegal casino in Atlantic City and not the Riviera in northern New Jersey.

My co-worker specifically remembers living in Florida when he was 12 when his father took him by the hand to show him the police destroying the gambling equipment found in "The Riveria" on Singer Island. Being a break-out joint, his father put the chips in his pocket and took them home knowing that the bosses wouldn't give him anything for his tips. Mark Lighterman did extensive research and found a newspaper article circa 1950/51 with pictures of police personnel chopping up gambling equipment outside of an illegal casino proportedly called "The Riveria". Larry Markman, I think, had the $5 and $100 chips. The only certainty here is that there was an illegal casino on Singer Island that used "The Riviera" chips. No information available cooberates that both the FLA and NJ "Riveria" illegal casinos were operated by the same people.