I saw these chips listed on Craigs List. The pictures attached weren't especially helpful. I emailed the guy since it was 11:30PM and asked him to give me a call. He called back within an hour.
I told him I was interested but that I worked the next day and was scheduled to work until 9PM. He said that he had a few others interested but no one had come up with the cash. I told him that he didn't know me but asked him to tell anyone else that they were sold and that I would meet him after work. He said that he was a night owl and that I could come after work. He then mentioned the he could deliver them. He lived way up north and I asked him where he thought the half-way point would be. He thought for a moment and said that downtown would probably split the difference.
Ok, I said, I think it would be apropriate to make the transaction on the top floor of the Plaza parking garage. The chips got to go "home" for a few minutes before they came home with me.
I knocked on my roommates door (he's also a chip collector and I've cut him in on half of this deal) and off we went on a 1AM chip run.

This isn't the first time I have bought several hundred chips. In each case I've contacted or in some way notified the TCR and C&W people. I think it is important to get this information out there. I've started this process by posting what chips were in the find and which ones I believe to be listed in the books and which chips don't seem to be. I've not yet communicated exact numbers and since I haven't even offered chip number one for sale I don't see the urgency. Any one who can put two and two together after seeing my posts know that some quantity has been "found".

Jim and I have sorted through each chip and made put them in stacks. He's a little more excessive than I am. For example he has the red with 8 green chips sorted by inserts/reverse inserts. I told him to turn the chip over and the inserts are the same. Do you really think Paulson was going to feed the chips to the hot stamper with the inserts all facing the same way? To me it doesn't matter. To him and others (he insists Greg Susong categorizes chips that way too) it may. Long and short canes also got their own stack.

The most plentiful of the varieties number around 200 chips. Some other chips only amounted to 18, 22, 36 22, 15 etc. There are also a handfull of chips that are warped or worn such that they won't be salable.

After the culling process is complete we'll discuss pricing and whether to only offer the less plentiful chips in sets.

Between us we're working 3 jobs so give us a day or so and we'll post them for sale.

And yes, Barry, they'll be what we consider reasonably priced and we'll put a set aside for you.

I don't know the guy in Owings Mills, Maryland and I have no idea how many chips he may have.