mold
number |
picture |
details |
| MD-10 |
 |
HOUSE MOLD (Bud Jones) -- this is an
example of a Bud Jones Co., Las Vegas NV, house "mold" on a plastic chip
with a metal inlay. The rim inscription is not embossed, rather it
is flat -- a plastic inlay in the plastic rim of the chip.
Bud Jones made coin inlay plastic chips 1970's-present. (Incidentally,
there are so many examples of different inalid rim plastic chips [with
various designs, suits and pips] that they can not all be shown here or
anywhere, so I don't attempt to list them, unless they are venerable.)
......The chip here is the first-issue $1 chip of Harrah's Marina,
Atlantic City NJ (1980). |
| MD-11 |
 |
HOUSE MOLD ( Paulson) -- special embossed rim
mold design made just for that casino. First used by a Nevada casino
in the mid-1960's. It has become increasingly popular over time and
is now used by virtually every modern casino. The design may contain
the casino name and/or logo, and possibly the denomination.. I applied
pencil to the chip on the left so you could easily read the incused mold
design: "Resorts International 1$." House molds come in both composition
and plastic casino chips...............The chip here is a sample of a house
mold chip is the current Resorts chip. The four edge stripes are
blue (the photo distorts the color). |
| MD-11a |
 |
ROULETTE MOLD -- incused (recessed)"roulette"
repeated twice. Paul-son Gaming Supplies, Las Vegas NV.
This is Paul-son's generic mold for its roulette chips. The chip
on the left is quite soiled so the embossed incused lettering on the rim
scans particularly well. |
| MD-12 |
 |
CASINO NAMES -- 8 Las Vegas casino names
-- four on one side (Caesars, Grand, Stardust and Sands) and four on the
reverse (Circus, Aaddin, Dunes and Riviera). It is an injection molded
plastic poker chip, not used for casinos... |
| MD-13 |
 |
"A" MOLD (a/k/a AMERICAN MOLD) -- an "A" and
three dashes, repeated four times.
1960's-present. Atlantic
Standard Molding, Portland, Maine. The mold is not licensed or
used in Nevada or Atlantic City. It is used elsewhere -- Indian reservations,
small clubs, home games, etc. |
| MD-13a |
 |
ROYAL FLUSH-STEAMBOAT MOLD -- 4 steamboats (we
think: two smoke stacks blowing a trail of smoke, etc.?), 2 royal flushes
in spades (A, K, Q, J, 10), and two Ace-Kings.
Plastic, injection-molded chip, found May 2001 by Dave Smith at a Massachsetts
antique show-flea market. The center of the chip may have been left
blank for future hot-stamping. Good quality plastic chip; may contain
some composition material; makes nice 'thud" sound against a table top. |
| MD-14 |
 |
"B" MOLD -- "B" and dash, repeated eight times.
1960's-present Bazaar Supply & Equipment Co., N. Y. The
owner told me the mold was never used very much, especially today, and
never used by a casino, rather a light chip for home games and clubs.
(However, Bill Borland's Blue
Book of Casino Chips describes it as a "registered casino design,"
no longer in use.) . |
| MD-15 |
 |
B-DIAMOND (a/k/a DIAMOND-B) --
"B" and 4 diamonds, repeated four times. This mold seems to have
been used mostly in the northwestrn United States. It is now sold
by Seattle Restaurant Store Co. (a cookware store!), Seattle WA,
which opened in 1933 as Tavern Supply Co./Bar Mart........Luke Rapley sent
me a variation of this chip, which came in a box saying Tavern Supply Co.,
Seattle, Wash. To
see it, click here. . |
| MD-16 |
 |
WAVE CRESTS (a/k/a WAVE) -- 24 waves.
(The mold is shown on this page because the wave crests look like the letter
"C.") 1930's-1940's. Bowman Equipment Co. ("Bowman Excel Speed" appears
on one of my advertising distributor chips), Chicago IL. (I found
an identical chip [but with 23 waves] in a c.1961 Evans Park and Carnival
Device Corp. {successors to H C Evans & Co.} catalog.). |
| MD-17 |
 |
"C" MOLD -- a large embossed "C." (I filled
the incused spaces with soap for photography purposes.) H. C. Evans
and Co., Chicago IL. c. 1900 to 1930's. (The embossed "C" mold
chip appears in a c.1900 Harris Co. catalog and a 1909 Evans catalog.
The most recent Evans catalog I found with the mold is a 1929 one.)
The "C" stands for "casino." The Evans catalog proclaims that
"the large Casino C is an exclusive Evans' design.." Jim Blanchard
says H. E. Mason & Co. once owned the mold. |
| MD-18 |
 |
C, SPADES, HEARTS, CLUBS, DIAMONDS -- "C" and
the four pips, repeated four times. Club Room Equipment Co. |
| MD-19 |
 |
"H" MOLD (H.C.E.)-- 8 H's.
H. C. Edwards and Co., NYC. Was a major supplier of Nevada chips,
1940's to 1968. The business was started in the 1920's [I own a 1929
H. C. Edwards catalog, but unfortunately it didn't include chips, just
dice, cards, etc., although "checks" was one of the products listed on
the cover] and was sold and broken up in 1984. Now Bazaar Supply/Berk
Trading Co., NY, owns the mold and uses it infrequently, but not for U.S.
casinos. I am told that the mold is used today in Europe.......Mark Lighterm
has obtained some of the H C Edwards Co. shipping-chip hot-stamp records
and has put them on two CD's ($15.00) and in an H.C.E. book. E-mail
him at mlighter@bellsouth.net .........Club 36 chips are unattributed. |
| MD-21 |
 |
"L" MOLD -- 32 L's. Old mold, used mostly
in California. C. W. Rice Co.......For the picture on the left, the
incused embossed lines were filled with soap for photography purposes.
The chip is unattributed. The reverse side says $5.00. |
| MD-22 |
 |
LAZY "N" (a/k/a OIL CAN MOLD) --
8 N's or oil cans. a recently discovered old mold. Distributor
is unknown. Steve Goodrich provided the scan. |
| MD-23 |
 |
"N" MOLD (or "NV") -- 12 NV's. Unknown
distributor, etc. Bill Borland showed this as him mold #41 in his
"Official
Blue Book of Casino Chips and Tokens" (now out of print). He
lists 72 molds. This is one of three that I don't own/have never
seen. |
| MD-25 |
 |
LAZY "S" (a/k/a S mold) -- 24 "lazy" S's.
1930's -1940's. Ryan &  Co,
Chicago IL ("Ryans Speed Checks" advertised on this mold); and H. E. Mason
and Co., Chicago IL.. |
| MD-26 |
 |
"T" MOLD -- 26 T's, alternating right side
up and upside down.  1930's-1951.
Taylor & Co. Chicago IL (their advertising chips on this mold exclaimed
"Taylor's Super Speed"). |
| MD-27 |
 |
"TK" MOLD -- TK repeated 13 times. 1940's-1970's?
T.K.  Specialty
Co., Kansas City, KS and Reno NV. BPOE 546 [an Elks Club in Alexandria
LA] on one side, and $1.00 on the reverse. |
| MD-28 |
 |
"X" MOLD -- 22 X's. Relatively
rare and old mold. Uncertain as to who the distributor is. |
