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picture |
details |
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| MD-1 |
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SPEED DICE (also known as "Dice with
Comet's Tail", and "Dice Swirls") (DISWRL) -- 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" (10th edition) lists
only three Nevada casinos which used 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].) I just (Feb 2018) corresponded with the
"account executive" at Midwest, and he told me "at this time we are not
making these [speed dice] chips."
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$10.00
Supply
shrink-
ing;
need
more.
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| MD-2 |
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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.
...
.... David Spragg offered this info: "Chips are known from 1947 (or
even 1946 onwards). No one knows who the original owner was, the
mold possibly resided at USPC before being bought by Burt in 1946.
1951-1953 it was owned by H N Garrison of Reno Game Supply (at that
time Tommy Haines was an employee). From 1953 it was owned by
Haines (initially as Precision Inc). All chips were made by Burt
Co. After the mold wore out and was returned to Haines it was presumably
destroyed." ..... An interesting thing about the arrowdie mold
is that 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. It is hard to see on worn chips. Easy to
see here. Just click this link. ...........The yellow chip
pictured on the far left is a generic Arrow Die chip -- "$5" is on both
sides. For sale I have the same thing, except used, in white and
"5�" on both sides. |
$5.00
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| MD-3 |
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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. (I also have for sale the same
$5 inlaid chip with this difference: red clay color and 3 beige inserts
-- also $4.00). ... ... UPDATE: currently owned and reserved by Classic Poker Chips company for casino customers only. It is licensed for use in Nevada, but is not in production now.
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$4.00 |
| MD-4 |
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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"). |
None
for
sale.
I
need
some
for
sale
here.
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| MD-5 |
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NEVADA-NEVADA -- "NEVADA" twice, one
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; it was used in about 36 different clubs in (only) Nevada.
Click
here to see salesman's samples of 100 blank Nevada-Nevada chips in varying
colors and edge spot combinations. ... ... .... About 1991 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,
as well as a few legitimate casino chips, especially non-value chips.
Beware. ...... .... .... . It is not being used, at this time, by
any casinos or clubs. Nevada Jacks Co., the current owner of the mold,
recently purchased it, in 2001, from Atlantic Standard Molding (which had
gotten the mold from the Borland/Jerry Wall estates), and it currently
resides at Blue Chip Co., Las Vegas, which makes the chips for Nevada Jacks.
It is exclusively used to make the Nevada Jack clay poker chip (for home
poker sets). Nevada Jacks Co. sells chips and other gambling supplies.
Click here to view the Nevada
Jacks web site. A more detailed history of the mold is found at this
fine web page by David Spragg. ... .... .....This chip for sale here
has a faint hot-stamped horse's head on it....... .... Also available
for sale at the same $3 price is an unused red chip with a hot-stamped
gold horseshoe. |
$3.00 |
| MD-6 |
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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 for sale 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. The chips offered here are beige and in mint condition. ... ..... As of October 2015, the mold is still being produced in Maine at Classic Poker Chips company, a company that took over from Atlantic Standard Molding in 2013-2014. All their molds can be seen here. The mold is licensed for use in Nevada as of 2014 onwards. |
$5.00 |
| MD-7 |
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DICE AND SUITS (DIESUITS) --pair ("2"
and "5") of dice three times, and cluster of the 4 pips three times.
Bud Jones Co., Las Vegas, which has been making coin inlay chips from 1971
to present, although the design in the pictured chip is probably discontinued...........The
chip is from the now-defunct Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, casino.
The one for sale is just like the pictured chip to the left except that there
is no "$" sign with the "1". |
$4.00 |
| MD-7a |
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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). |
$4.00 |
| MD-8 |
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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. ..........The chips I
have for sale have the denomination on the back -- white,$1; red, $5; orange,
$2; green, $25. |
$3.00
each |
10/19/09
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Recent mold. 2 pair of dice and 8 suits. Manufacturer
is unknown. Reported to ChipBoard by Roy Klein, October 2009, who said, "It's
a pretty light weight chip with a bit of plastic in the clay composition.
There are no ejector pin marks or anything like that."
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none
for
sale
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