http://www.thechipboard.com/archives/archives.pl/bid/311/page/1/md/read/id/347412/sbj/rounders-card-room-of-sacremento-ca/

Apparently, they were made by a guy named Matthew Foster, who made them for resale as fantasy chips, in honor of his father and uncle who ran three clubs by the same name decades before.

Michael Siskin