I played this house for several years as have others I know have and nobody I know of knows of other chips as these two chips. All we know is that there were 3 tables and the 2 most common tables that we all played on are the 2 most common found; the Anchor inlay and the Sailfish inlay.
There was one other table at the back of the room, the Conch inlay, which was never open when I was there nor was it open when anyone else that I know was there but, we know from management that the third table was only open when certain ships from Asia called. These two chips, the Starfish inlay, are the only two known in the World.
Now, back to Portsmouth; if we assume the series with the most known colors is the series we see the most in collections and on eBay, today, we can be pretty certain it was a table with a lot of action, whenever. We know of or assume that there 2ere two other series being the lunette we only know of by what we see in a BG catalog and the Red Bunny only known from Tom Stroh which, only Tom knew where it came from and, knowing who Tom spoke with from Playboy all those years might be where he got it from just like I was the person to introduce the BJ Training chips to the hobby that I got directly from corporate in Chicago... and thus far we can assume what is known in quantity (sets) and what is rare and maybe rare.
I will discount the double layout table at Portsmouth only because of space limitations in the room.
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