mold
number |
picture |
details |
| MD-1 |
|
SPEED DICE (also known as "Dice with Comet's Tail",
and "Dice Swirls") -- six different dice, each with comet's tail;
opposite dice total 7. This mold has been used by just a few casinos.
"The Chip Rack" lists only six (out of over 10,000) Nevada chips that
use this mold..........Mold owned by Midwest Game Supply Co. (Bill Borland's
Blue
Book gives the mold's owner as Portland Card Co., Portland OR [now out
of business].) |
| MD-2 |
|
ARROW DIE (a/k/a Arrows and Dice) (ARODIE) -- 12 arrowheads and 12
dice (the 6 dice sides are repeated twice; the opposite dice total 
7). c.1953-c.1968. Tom Haines and Co., Las Vegas NV. Some or
all of them were marketed under the name Precision, Inc., 214 W. Wyoming,
Las Vegas NEV, Haines' company. The arrow die mold is highly prized and relatively
rare. It has been used mostly in Nevada. ... ... .....There is one
hashmark on each side of an arrowdie chip. Each side has 12 dice (2
sets of 1 thru 6). So there are two one-spots (aces) on each side.
On each side there is only one hashmark (looks like a slanted file mark)
above (only) one of the one-spot dies. Same thing on the other side.
(Difficult to see on worn chips.) Click here
to see the marks on two chips. |
| MD-3 |
|
EWING -- 12 pips and 6 different dice; the opposite
dice total 7. 1971-?. Ewing Manufacturing Co,. Las Vegas (now
defunct)............The chip is from a now-closed Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic casino. |
| MD-4 |
|
DICE AND DIAMONDS -- four diamonds and four pair ("2"
and "5") of dice. Distributor, etc., unknown to me. Rare mold,
not used in U.S. The chip pictured is of the Continental Casino in
Korea ("Continental....K.J. Korea"). |
| MD-5 |
|
NEVADA -- "NEVADA" twice, and pair ("2" and "5") of
dice, and four aces. This mold was used by the The Bud Jones Co., Las
Vegas NV, 1965-1980's to make legitimate casino chips. Click here
to see salesman's samples of 100 blank Nevada-Nevada chips in varying colors
and edge spot combinations. The mold was eventually sold to Bill Borland,
who, it is believed, used the mold and certain hot-stamp dies and inlays
to make counterfeit and fantasy chips. Beware. See Appendix B
of "The Chip Rack." ...............This chip has a faint hot-stamped horse's
head on it. |
| MD-6 |
|
DICE AND CARDS (DIECAR) -- pair ("2" and "5") of dice
four times, and hand (4 aces) of cards four times. (I have seen this
arrangement, also incused, on metal center plastic molds, but with 3 pair
of dice and 3 hands of cards.) Used by Bud Jones Co. (1970's -1980's).
Same Bud Jones- Bill Borland story as presented above with MD-5.......The
chip here is coded FN HAR-1 in the "1998 Black's Catalog of Atlantic City
Casino Chips and Gaming Tokens." FN means "Fun Night," which is when
they were used -- for a day or two in 1980 by the public for "practice"
so the New Jersey officials could observe the casino staff in operation and
approve the official opening of the casino. |
| MD-7 |
|
DICE AND SUITS (DIESUITS) --pair ("2" and "5") of
dice three times, and cluster of the 4 pips three times. Bud Jones Co.,
Las Vegas, which has been making coin inlay chips from 1971 to present, although
the design in the pictured chip is probably discontinued...........The chip
is from the now-defunct Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, casino. |
| MD-7a |
|
DICE AND FOUR SUITS (DIE4SUITS) -- pair
of dice and 4 pips. Same story as in MD-7, above. Here, instead
of clusters of small pips, we have individual pips (suit symbols). |
| MD-8 |
|
MR. LUCKY -- "Mr. Lucky" three times, and a pair of
dice three times. Not a registered casino mold. Rather recent
vintage. A number of times in the 1980's I met Irving Cohen, who sold
and rented these chips and gaming equipment from his home in Laurelton NY,
a section of NYC in Long Island. (Irving , who was in his 60's then,
said he ran junkets, claimed to have won a California gambling ship in a
Las Vegas craps game, that the 1943 Cary Grant movie, "Mr. Lucky," was named
after him, and that he started and ran the Las Vegas' Monte Carlo/Sans Souci/Castaways
till he sold out to Howard Hughes.) Last I heard, he relocaterd to
Florida. Bill Borland's World-Wide Casino Exchange, Las Vegas NV,
was selling these 7 gram "durable plastic" (nice clay feel, anyway) chips
in 1990, at least. ... |
