Al

I would have thought that the casinos would have more of an interest - while the intent of anyone who is repairing chips (especially chips cancelled by casinos) may not be to defraud casinos, the possibility obviously exists, and if the equipment is being used by someone to 'repair' obsolete chips, then the equipment could be used to restore current chips which may have been cancelled, but where uncancelled examples are still in play. I know that these exact circumstances may be unusual, but I suspect that they exist somewhere, and it would be in any casino's interest to ensure that an operation for repairing and/or altering casino chips is closed down before any fraud, intentional or otherwise before it actually happens - because as has been stated many times, although a restored chip may not be intended by the restorer to move from outside a private collection, the restorer cannot be sure of that. If trademark infringement is the way to acheive this, then maybe that is the way forward although I suspect it would have to be a casino that has had one of it's chips altered.

Just my (rambling) thoughts.