Mike,
I would call them Crest and Seal-type chips -- by my definition, anyway. I said a Crest and Seal (C&S) chip is one which is clay, has a litho inlay (that is, there is printing/design on the inlay), and has a flat mold (that is, no embossed distributor/manufacturer rim design like the “hat and cane” or “hub” molds).
The Nevada Club chips meet all the criteria I set up.
Many distributors used the term "Crest and Seal" very loosely for their variously constructed chips. In my mind the term was just, for the most part, an advertising line to tout their special-order inlaid chips. The US Playing Card Co made most of these inlaid chips from the early 20th century to about WW II. I have an original copy of their catalog from the early 1930’s, and I see they do not bother to use the term “Crest and Seal,” just “paranoid”.
The most classic and beautiful C&S chips that everyone loves so much is the thin, round-edged ones that have a litho inlay and a thin film/coat/lacquer over the entire surface, so that when you tilt the chip to the light, you see an even shine over the entire chip. You also can not feel the separation of the clay and the inlay with your finger.
But other chips called C&S by the old distributors do not have the characteristics in the above paragraph, and I don’t include those characteristics in my definition. I stick to the three-part definition -- clay, litho inlay and flat mold.
The Nevada Club chips are beautiful C&S chips to me. It happens you can not feel the inlay-clay separation/merge with your finger, but when you tilt the chip to the light, the inlay is shiny and the clay part is not. But as I said, it is still a C&S to me.
Robert
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