order
number |
picture |
details |
price |
| MD-75 |
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HAT (NO CANE) -- 8 top hats.
You can see the injection mold circle inside the top hat in the picture
to the left. Not used for casino chips, for sure. I put the
entry here in case anyone would ever mistake these for MD-76 and MD-77
just below.......... ............. I have the chips in red, blue and
white for sale. |
$3.00 |
| MD-76 |
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HAT AND CANE, SHORT CANE VERSION (H&C- SCV) -- Top hat with cane, repeated 8 times (also see MD-76a,
76b and 77, below). 1965-present. Paul-son Gaming Supplies,
Las Vegas NV. By far, the Paul-son hat and canes are the most
used chip mold in Nevada and the world. On this page I show three
major varieties of the Paulson hat & cane rim mold.
In MD-76, the cane is relatively short (about 7.5 mm long) and the
triangular area
formed by the bottom of the cane and the left side of the
hat and brim is rather small; also the bottom of the cane appears to
end lower than the brim line. (The blue chip shown here is from
the California Hotel, Las Vegas NV.)...... I recommend
you visit Greg Susong's fine page about these variations and other
interesting chip information. ........I scanned the orange chip
on the left because its soiled nature highlights the embossed hat
and cane design. It is, of course, a roulette chip from the famous
Nevada casino. I have it for sale in many colors -- peach, orange,
brown, blue, yellow and red. |
$4.00
each |
| MD-76a |
|
HAT AND CANE, LONG CANE VERSION (H&C-LCV) -- Top hat and cane repeated
8 times. 1964 - present. Paul-son Gaming Supplies, Las Vegas
NV. This is the second variant of the H&C mold, called LCV (long
cane version). Compared to MD-76 above, this one has a long cane
(about 9 mm long), and there is a comparatively large area 
between the bottom of the cane and the left side of the
hat and brim (see the arrows in MD-76 and MD-76a). Additionally,
the lower end of the cane does not seem to go below the hat brim line.
It is my suspicion that many individual chip runs were done using both
molds (76 and 76a)...... ... .....In 2002 the French-owned Bourgogne
et Grasset, a major gambling supply house outside of the U.S., purchased
Paulson and Bud Jones companies. Paul-son is now a division of
the French-owned
Gaming Partners International Corporation, abbreviated GPI
Corp, the result of the merger of Bourgogne et Grasset,
The Bud Jones Company and Paul-Son Gaming Supplies,
Inc under the leadership of B&G. Gaming Partners
International Corporation, previously known as Paul-Son
Gaming Supplies Corporation, has their head office
in Las Vegas. At the same time, the two subsidiaries,
Paul-Son Gaming Supplies, Inc. and Bourgogne et Grasset
have become respectively Gaming Partners International
USA, abbreviated GPI, USA and Gaming Partners International,
SAS, abbreviated GPI, SAS. The group concentrates on products
that are very sensitive to casinos, particularly chips
and plaques but also dice, wheels, cards and associated
products such as layouts and gaming tables. For
an informative web page devoted to the Paul-son division, with links to
its types of chips (colors, sizes, etc.), click here
And click here
for a pdf file on GPI USA, which includes much information on their Paulson,
Bud Jones and B&G brand chips. ......I scanned a particularly soiled
chip to highlight the mold design. |
None
for
sale
now. |
| MD-76b |
|
HAT AND CANE (ALTERNATING
DIRECTIONS) -- top hat and cane repeated 8 times -- 6 of the hat-canes
have the cane handle on the right, and 2 of the hat-canes have the cane
handle on the left. 
That is, two pair (which happen to be the top and bottom
pair on the chip to the left, which was scored with pencil to highlight
the mold) have their cane handles facing each other. Another
major difference, among others, is that there is no outer ring (between
the embossed hats/canes and the edge of the chip) as there is with MD-76
and MD-76a, above. Click here
and here
for bigger pictures. ......This new rim mold design was probably done to
accommodate Paul-son's new wide graphic and
full graphic inlaid chips, which Paul-son began making in 1993. Nowadays,
most new Paul-son chips, especially the commemorative/limited edition
ones, seem to have this rim mold. .. .... ....... I'm limiting these
pages to vintage molds, but Lee H. O'Dell sent me this interesting new
Paulson mold chip, in January 2011 -- a Bally's, Las Vegas, "no cash value"
chip with 8 hats & canes -- 7 have the cane handle on the right, and
1 has it on the left -- click here
to see it. The mold is only known on non-cash value chips,
some being at Sam's Town, Tunica, MS, too. |
None
for
sale
now. |
| MD-76c |
|
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HAT AND CANE (INVERTED) -- 8 repetitions of inverted hat
and cane, that is, the brim of the hat faces the edge of the chip; in
all the other molds here, the brim faces the inner circle. Made
about 1990 to present, by Paul-son Gaming Supplies, Las Vegas NV. Both
chips to the left are actually 1-3/4" wide, and these inverted H&C
chips are only used on such large baccarat-style chips...............
Thanks to Don Lueders, who supplied the NOP chip. ... ... ...... I just
acquired a number of the Winner Club chips and will sell them for $13
each. For scanning purposes, I applied a white pencil around the
recessed hat-and-canes. Click here
and here
to see other scans of the Winner chip. In small print under
the 1000 is "this chip for amusement only." The Winner
Club chips were made for a junket operator running junkets to The North
Korean Free Trade Zone, casinos. The chips were never picked up.
The inlay gives off a hologram-like 3-D effect.
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$13.00
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| MD-77 |
|
HAT AND CANE (H&C CJ) --
top hat and cane, repeated 8 times. 1955-1965. Christy & Jones
Co., Las Vegas NV. This H&C mold is very similar to the
one above, MD-76. One difference is that the Paul-son H&C (for
quite a while) was about 7 mm long while the CJ (Christy & Jones)
H&C is about 9 mm long; the CJ ones have slightly taller hats, too.
Unlike the Paul-son one, the CJ one usually has a shiny inside to the hat
and a metal pellet inside the chip (X-ray it or take it apart)......Edge
spots are another way to distinguish CJ chips from Paulson ones.
The CJ edge spots have neat, smooth borders; the Paulson ones (but not the
modern full and wide graphic ones -- see MD-76b, above) tend to be sloppy/uneven.
The Paulson ones have convex ends, while the CJ ones are either straight,
or --if the edge spots are a half inch or wider-- concave. Click here
to see a longer, pictorial explanation of the edge spot differences
.......The "21 Club" chip pictured is unattributed. |
$5.00 |
| MD-78 |
|
SMALL CROWN (SCROWN)-- a small
crown and a small dash, repeated 12 times. 1950-present (1950-1978
in Nevada). T. R. King Co., Los Angeles CA, now at 400 West
Pico Blvd., started business in 1922. Click here for their web site.
Both the small and large crown chips are used mostly in California..........The
chip pictured here is supposedly from England. Prince Charles,
the heir to the British throne, is known as the Prince of Wales, a title
used by a long line of Royals. I'm not suggesting anyone important
owned these chips, just that the "Prince of Wales" crest is the design
on the chips, and it is a popular, well-known design in both Britain and
the U.S. |
$3.00 |
| MD-79 |
|
LARGE CROWN (LCROWN) -- a
large crown and a large dash, repeated 4 times. 1938-1967.
T. R. King Co., Los Angeles CA. (More info about T.R. King above
at MD-78.) .......I have the "JAY" chips for sale here. They are
worn and have glue on one side. I have them in red, yellow, black
and blue. |
$3.00
each.
I
need
more
for
this
list.
|
| MD-80 |
|
HOUR GLASS (HRGLASS) --
30 hourglasses. 1940's-1950's? Rigdon & Co., Cincinnati OH.
The mold was used mainly for illegal clubs in that part of the country
-- Kentucky, Ohio, etc...........The chip for sale is unattributed.
It is "fortunately" soiled, so you can easily see the recessed hourglasses. |
$3.00 |
| MD-80a |
|
NEW HOURGLASS -- new
hourglass mold from Atlantic Molding to replace the old hourglass
mold.. Same 30 hourglasses, but only one ring. Used about
1980 to early 1990's. The mold was made for Doubling Cube
Co., NYC, about 1980. Later the mold was sold, I believe to Duro
Sales, Inc., Deer Park NY. I have seen the mold chips in a 1990
brochure of Duro Sales. It is doubtful that the chips were used in
casinos. I don't know who owns the mold now or whether it is being
used today. .. ..... 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. |
I
need samples for
sale
here |
| MD-81 |
|
HARP -- 24 harp designs.
1930's-1950's? Taylor & Co., Chicago IL. Chips of this mold
have been used for a lot of illegal clubs in middle America............This
chip pictured here has been traced to the Taylor Co. records -- its
from the 39 Club, 802 E. 39 St., Chicago ILL. 2600 yelow chips
were ordered March 26, 1941. |
$6.00 |
| MD-82 |
|
HORSESHOES -- 16 horseshoes,
alternately pointing in and out. 1952-early 2000's. T.
K. Specialty Co., Reno NV. They just make dice now. TK was sold to Bourgogne and Grasset, mainly for T.K.'s dice
business. So B&G owns the horseshoe mold now, but will probably
never use it!.... ..... The wagon wheel chip to the left is from
Harvey's Casino, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, c. 1960's (N4434). It's from
the first issue of their roulette chips. |
$8.00 |
| MD-83 |
|
CANDELABRA (better
known now as Trident mold)-- 12 candelabras.
Used in Europe. Stakis Casinos are in England and
Scotland........Soap
was applied to the embossed candelabras to highlight them for
scanning
purposes. ..... In October 2011, the people at Palm Gaming
International
told me, "the trident or candelabra mold is currently owned by [the]
former
owner of TCS Huxley. [He] resides in England ... .... this mold is
in
storage for him at our daytona beach facility until either we buy it or
he
finds a new home for it." UPDATE: Classic Poker Chips
company bought this from Jeff Lindsay and donated the mold to Nevada
Historical Society. ... .... Thanks to Jeff B's observation, it looks like this mold had almost exclusively been used by the casinos of the Stakis group, and it is a logo of that group, so it can be considered a "house mold" now (look here ).
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