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Re: Dean Clark Auctions Playboy
In Response To: Dean Clark Auctions Playboy ()

Dennis (and John and Gene)

Those are more examples of Fantasy chips from GGS. I haven't seen a catalog in a year or two but the mold pattern used to be listed and they would put the Playboy trademark on the chip for you. I know this for a fact because I ordered some triclub chips hotstamped with the Playboy trademark when I was first working on my book just to see if they were really the source. Here's what I wrote:

Fantasy Cheques

Triclub Mold
Fantasy or custom hot stamped chips using the Triclub mold with a outlined rabbit logo and stamped “Playboy” have periodically surfaced (see fantasy 1 and 2). A gaming supply house in Las Vegas has purchased a number of the old mold designs, some of which were used by Playboy. This establishment will supply custom cheques in numerous mold designs, including Triclub, Scroll, and Dice & Cards. Many collectors have had one or two of these chips in their collections as unattributed chips. They could cause an unaware collector to spend a lot of money for a near worthless chip. These can be detected by looking for a few clues;

First, they are typically hot stamped chips, even the high denominations, something not done in the real world.

Second, they are typically stamped on the reverse with a dollar amount only. The denomination is written with a dollar sign. The double zero cents is underlined. This amount is not written out in text. If an attempt to copy cheques from the UK, a cursive “L” probably will be used rather than the proper Pound Sterling symbol with the two mid-height hash marks.

Third, they don’t have a location stamped on them such as “London” or “Training School.” The only text on the chips is the word “PLAYBOY” under the rabbit head.

Fourth, the Playboy rabbit head is an outline drawing and has a larger, open, circular eye. For a comparison, look at the authentic trademark on the reverse of PLN-p50 in the following illustration. The authentic trademark has a solid, filled in eye. Another distinction can be made here in that the original Playboy hot stamps were of much better quality when viewed closely.
As of the date of publication, these chips could still be ordered in a variety of colors, denominations and mold designs, three of which are illustrated here as “Fantasy 1, 2, and 3.”
A more recent fantasy chip of a different style but out of the same location is shown as Fantasy 5. Described as the Dynasty Series (DS-6B4) they have used a more accurate Playboy Rabbit head trademark than the chips described above. The only denomination seen in this style is the $100 shown.

Sorry to so blatently plug my book.

Tom

BTW- If you consider the recent Playboy london triclub roulette chips that have been on ebay selling for around $50 to $100 each and the fact that GGS has the triclub mold and will put the rabbithead trademark on it, there is a very thin line between fantasy and counterfit.

Messages In This Thread

Dean Clark Auctions Playboy
Re: Dean Clark Auctions Playboy
Re: Dean Clark Auctions Playboy
Thanks for your input!
You can try calling ...
Re: You can try calling ...
My response was to DennisG... NOT you grin
Re: Dean Clark Auctions Playboy
Re: Dean Clark Auctions Playboy
THANKS TOM ! Great Story

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