These are cartoon poker chips
(pictured below). Most of the humor has to do with double meanings
of poker expressions. The chips are well-made, heavy duty, thick,
square-edged, pressed paper 1-1/2"poker chips. Above is a picure of
the chip box. Each box contained 60 chips -- 20 red, 20 white and 20
blue. Often they came with 20 different cartoons printed on one side
of each chip. Other times the same box would come with all plain chips
(no cartoons). The box advertised them as "noiseless" (never described
as paper) and "the most economical poker chips sold." Interesting the
way the company boldly stressed their worst frature (cheap paper chips) with
the cartoon on the box -- the wife is examining his jacket for poker chips.
One falls out -- see the dotted line and the white chip
at the bottom of the picture. The husband says to himself, "Thank gosh
it's one of those noiseless poker chips." Made by The Dyment Company,
Cleveland, Ohio, copyright 1933. The company is still
active today in the paper products field. They have offices in Cleveland
and Chicago. ..... ........ ......... There are 20 different cartoons (all
pictured below). In "Antique Gambling Chips" (pp. 357-8), 16 of them
are pictured. The company was careful to have 20 chips of each color
in each box, but in those boxes with the cartoon chips, the particular cartoons
came in a random distribution -- for example, maybe only one or no chips of
some cartoons, and 4 or 5 chips of another.
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