I was having a hard time justifying the trip to Cincinatti for the trade session a few weeks ago. Gas for the 4+ hour trip plus hotel near the casino and that doesn't even include the food. On the way home I went to a Cincy area antique show/flea market across from the Argosy. A lady there asked me about the poker chips I was buying and said she had a cigar box full of them. Long story short I ended up paying three times my original offer for these beauties, sight unseen. I paid a lot for them but I think I still did OK. All I had to go by was a fuzzy B&W fax. Sorry about the huge scan but I tried forever to reduce the size and just couldn't.

The best part about this for me is that despite knowing that most of the chips were plain inlaid poker chips, looking at them closely revealed that most of them had different initials on both sides. In fact only the top 2 rows have single initials. And the top 5 chips were the only "garbage" chips in the whole lot. There are 68 different types of chips I received. Here are a few of the reasons I bought them:

I think 5 of the chips may be previously unknown. And look at that great Gran Casino that is waaaaaay off-center. I think that the original owner may have been an employee at USPC in Cincinatti since several of the chips are off center. He may have taken home some floor sweepings. Since I just got these today, I have no idea what I have in the way of duplicates. Give me a few days to sort thru them and I will post the stuff I want to get rid of.