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ANTE UP: The Collection of Robert Eisenstadt

We welcome you to take part in Ante Up, the auction of the Robert Eisenstadt's incredible collection. The auction takes place on January 30, 2021 at 10:00AM CT. You can visit the auction website by clicking here.

You can also view the collection that is up for auction as a PDF.

If you have any questions about the auction, please contact Joseph Slabaugh (joeslabaugh@potterauctions.com, 773-472-1442) at Potter & Potter Auctions.

IN MEMORIAM: Robert Eisenstadt 1942 - 2020

On June 5, 2020, Robert Eisenstadt died peacefully at home, in the loving presence of his sister Nancy and his sister's family. He will be dearly missed by all of us who loved and appreciated him. If you would like to leave a story about Robert, write a message, or read what others have written, please click here.

He took pride in his collection and loved sharing it with fellow enthusiasts; please have a look and enjoy.

 
 

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DICE APPEAR IN MOLD DESIGNS

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. ...

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