Hi Katie, Bill Borland was a very early pioneer in our hobby. It is a very long story, but if you're willing to read it, I'll try to tell you most of what I remember. I started collecting chips when I lived in Las Vegas in 1976. Like a lot of people I just figured I was the only collector in the world. A friend of mine was a cocktail waitress at the Dunes. She told me about a fellow employee who was always asking the girls to watch for oddball chips they got for tokes. At that time the Dunes was a first class joint. They had some of the finest resturants in town, The Sultans Table, Dome Of The Sea, And Top Of The Dunes were all places Bill had waited tables eventially working his way up to captain and later matre d. These were very good jobs at this time in Las Vegas and Bill had plenty of discretionary income to spend on his hobbies. [show girls, gambling, and chip collecting] As the years went by Bill collected chips, accumulated many duplicates and decided to get into the chip/gamlbing supply business. {It was not called the gaming business at that time] Bill eventually opened a small store on Reno St. where he also did a little chip manufacturing, this is where it gets interesting. Bill bought a couple of chip moulds from a couple of established suppliers that they where no longer using. I don't beleive he had much luck selling chips to casinos so he just kinda made copies of any chip he wanted to. He made mostly small denominations. I don't beleive he did this to defraud anyone, but no one will ever know for sure what his motives were because he died around 1992. The chips You see for sale on ebay where made to be sold as commemoratives [ used in key chain, etc.] He was very proud of them and gave both me and my exwife a new set when we got back to Vegas to visit. His best acheivement was a book he published in 1988 called "The Official Blue Book of Casino Chips and Gaming Tokens. In it he attempted to list every known chip and token, a very ambitious project at that early time in chip collecting. I still have my autographed copy and beleive it or not I use it every now and then. I hope this answers your question, I've taken up enough space on this BB but if you come to one of the conventions please introduce yourself and I'll tell you the rest of this story, its kinda of interesting and also very sad. Jim Kruse