order
number |
picture |
details |
price |
| MD-10 |
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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 offered here is the
first-issue $1 chip of Harrah's Marina, Atlantic City NJ (1980). |
$10.00 |
| MD-11 |
|
HOUSE MOLD ( Paulson)
-- special embossed rim mold design made just for that casino.
First used by a Nevada casino in the mid-1960's. It has become
increasingly popular over time and is now used by virtually every
modern casino. The design may contain the casino name and/or logo,
and possibly the denomination.. I applied pencil to the chip on
the left so you could easily read the incused mold design: "Resorts
International 1$." House molds come in both composition and
plastic casino chips...............The chip offered here for sale as
a sample of a house mold chip is the current Resorts chip. The
four edge stripes are blue (the photo distorts the color). |
$3.00 |
| 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. |
None
for
sale.
Find
me
some.
|
| 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).
In the lates 1970's-early 1980's these chips were sold in Las Vegas gift
shops and elsewhere. They were sold in a wooden (?) box with a sliding
clear plastic top that had the words, "Official Casino Gaming Chips." It
is an injection molded plastic poker chip, not used for casinos.......I
have them for sale in red, white and blue. |
$3.00
each |
| 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. |
$3.00 |
| 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...............I have for sale
the chips in beige and green. I don't have many, so only one chip
per customer. |
$6.00
each |
| 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.) .........I have these worn samples for sale
-- (1) blue 10, pictured; and (2) red, no denomination. |
$3.00
each |
| 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. ...........I have the chip pictured on the left for sale.
They are in nice shape except for the worn hot-stamp image. One side
has "$1.00." and the reverse says "5050." |
$4.00 |
| 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.).........The chips to the left is available
for sale in four colors -- red, white, blue and yellow. It is unattibuted.
Chips are in very fine condition. Robert Ensley provided the chips
with the "W."................. I also have chips with no hot-stamp,
just the wave crest mold design -- in purple, yellow, black, red and orange.
These plain ones are priced at $2 each. |
$4.00 |
| MD-16a |
|
CARO -- 16 suit symbols
and the letters "C," "A," "R," and "O." This is the embossed mold
of the famous (now defunct) Paris, France, gambling supply house.
Click
here for some history about Caro. The samples for sale
here are all notched. |
$20.00 |
| 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 Evans catalog proclaims that "the large Casino
C is an exclusive Evans' design.." The Harris Co., Brooklyn NY,
catalog said the "C" was for "club." It proclaimed that the chip
gives a club a "distinctive poker check which cannot be duplicated by
any other manufacturer, and will prevent ringers." Jim Blanchard says
H. E. Mason & Co. once owned the mold..... ..... I have for sale:
ones on the left here (brown, with "PH"-- the white is soap I applied to
make the chip easier to scan); white, with no inscription; and blue (worn,
with hot-stamped star with rays). |
$3.00
|
| MD-18 |
|
C, SPADES, HEARTS, CLUBS, DIAMONDS -- "C" and the four pips, repeated four times. Club
Room Equipment Co. |
None
for
sale.
I
need
some
for
sale
here.
|
| 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. Then Bazaar Supply/Berk Trading Co., Yonkers,
NY, owned the mold and used it infrequently, but not for U.S. casinos.
I am told that the mold was used in Europe at that time. In about
2004, Bazaar Supply/Berk Trading went out of business, and Atlantic Standard
Molding/Poker Chips Online bought the mold, and although it is not yet shown
on their web site, it is used today by ASM for home poker chip sets, but
not for casinos..........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. |
$3.00 |
| MD-21 |
|
"L" MOLD -- 32 L's.
Old mold, used mostly in California; not used today ... .... ..... In
fact, most of the chips found with this mold were 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. |
$3.00 |
| MD-22 |
|
LAZY "N" (a/k/a
OIL CAN MOLD) -- 8 N's or oil cans. A recently discovered
old mold. Distributor is unknown. It's a real mystery
-- it wasn't made by the Burt Co., which manufactured most of these
old chips. Steve Goodrich provided the scan..... ... ...... I have
just 3 chips with this mold left for sale. They have SOR (or SQR) hot-stamped
on one side, and SO (or SQ) on the reverse. Just one chip per customer.
.... ..... ....... The ones I have for sale are hot-stamped "MCL," are in
very fine condition, colors: red, white, blue, yellow.
|
$5.00
I
could
use
some
more
|
| 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. |
None
for
sale.
I
need
some
for
sale
here.
|
| 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..............The
white chip pictured to the left is for sale. "One dollar" is
on both sides. |
$3.00 |
| 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")........Yellow
chip on the left is for sale; it is unattributed. I also have
it in brown for sale. Also some with the initials "JP." |
$4.00
|
MD-26a
|
|
"T" MOLD (SMALL T) -- 54
T's, alternating right side up and upside down.
The chips are 9 grams. The mold was designed by Elijah Muse in December
2005 for Holdempokerchips,
which has always owned the mold. They call it the "interlocking T" mold
(the T's in the design interlock, not the chips themselves.) They are sold
both hot-stamped and plain for home sets and clubs, not licensed casinos,
yet. To highlight the T-mold design in the scans to the left, I scored
the rim mold with the side of a lead pencil.
|
|
| MD-27 |
|
"TK" MOLD -- TK repeated
13 times. 1940's-1970's? T.K. 
Specialty Co., Kansas City, KS and Reno NV........The
sample sold here is the red chip on the left. They are quite worn.
BPOE 546 [an Elks Club in Alexandria LA] on one side, and $1.00 on the
reverse. |
$3.00 |
| MD-28 |
|
"X" MOLD -- 22
X's. Relatively rare and old mold. Uncertain as to who the
distributor is. |
$3.00
Need
more.
|
MD-29
|
|
"COURTS & NUMERALS" -- the 13 indicies of each suit of playing cards, in
this order: 2, 4, 8, Q, 5, J, 7, 9, A, 3, 6, K and 10. The mold
dates from May 2004 and has always been owned and used by BuyPokerChips.com, which sells
the chips only on-line as poker chip sets (not to casinos). "Courts
& Numerals" is the name BuyPokerChips.com gave the mold. The
Blue Chip Co, of North Las Vegas, makes the chips.
|
$2.00
|
MD-30
|
|
"PAULSON CHIPS" -- "PAULSON
CHIPS" and the hat-and-cane logo are each in two places around the rim.
Note that the hat is reversed on this mold -- i.e., the handle
of the cane is on the left side of the hat. This is the mold manufactured
by Gaming Partners International® SAS's (also known as GPI® SAS)
United States division, GPI, USA (the old Paul-son and Bud Jones companies).
The mold is used for home poker sets (that is, non-casino chips).
The mold first appeared about 2004. It is a good quality, square-edged
clay chip with a slick-finish inlay. GPI does not sell directly to
the public; rather it wholesales the chips in very large chip orders. One
company that retails these chips is BuyPokerChips.com. .....
....... ........ The chip on the left is for sale. I scored the rim
mold with the side of a pencil point so it would be more legible.
|
$3.00
|
