Forgot to mention that these we see for sale are pretty much a very large tip of the iceberg, with many chips to follow. "High Quality"??? Your kidding.? Phil used to get ribbed (and still does) that he would take a chip in ANY condition (just like me....lot'sa burn marks, etc) and if it had a big hole in it...he was the only guy that could (or would) plug it with amazing matching colors and sometimes texture. In fact, that was critical to his identifying the stolen chips at Steves tabel. During the convention he came to me and said some dealer had his "old stolen" chips on display for sale. Knowing it was Steve who had previously announced his "buy of the century), and was unquestionably honest; I convinced Phil we needed to let Steve know. Took him over to meet Steve who could not believe the story until Phil told Steve about the fill hole in a very scarce chip. That did it and the rest is history.
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