Inlaid gambling chips (die-cut inlaid type) manufactured by the U.S. Playing Card Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, which were made between approximately 1910 and 1940's and can be traced to the shipping-chip sample archive records of USPC.  (wait for pictures to download; worth the wait!)  (note: "Die-cut inlaid chips" are inlaid chips that have a plain inlay [made of white plastic or laminated paper] that is cut up so that the silhouette effect against the clay of the chip produces a certain monogram or design;"Crest and Seal" chips are clay chips with litho [i.e., printed] inlays and flat rims, i.e., no embossed mold rims) (condition: all chips are in very fine to excellent condition, unless otherwise noted)  (I tried to price these chips fairly.  Feedback and offers to sell me chips are appreciated.  I wish others would have public price lists for these things.)
 

Eisenstadt order number	All the chips here are the same size -- c. 1-1/2".  (Only the pictures vary in size.)	Name of chip	Description, date, etc. (all are inlaid, either Crest and Seal chips or die-cut chips.)  All in very fine or better condition, unless otherwise noted.)	Price per one chip
USD-50		ARB	¶ pink ($25), yellow ($15) and gray ($15) ¶ used, a little soiled from handling; otherwise fine. ¶ shipped in 1912 to F. Grote & Co., the major New York  gambling supply house.	prices to the left
USD-3		BCS	have chips in red and blue..........UFC: the page in the archives with this chip is missing the shipping/order data.  The other chip on the page has a 1911 date......plain inlay.	$50.00
USD-71		CAC -- Chicago Athletic Club SOLD	¶ issued 1924.  Chicago Athletic Club, per Ed Hertel's 2006 on-line edition of his "Ed Hertel's Price Guide for Illegal Casino Chips" (on pdf format) (shown there only in yellow clay w/ black inlay).  This is my last dupe of the chip -- used, slight hairline crack on part of (only) one side.   Nice enough chip. ¶ But perhaps the chip was used (or also used) in the Miami, Florida, area, as the historical society in south Florida has a picture of the aftermath of a 1929 police raid in Miami that shows the same chip in the picture! ¶ Handsome, big, thick, square-edged chip.  Unusual is that the inlay is black, not the usual white.	$90.00 SOLD
USD-4		Chicago Automobile Club	This chip was for the Chicago Automobile Club.  It was sold through A. Pick and Co., Chicago ILL.  No date is given in the archives, but the closest dates on near pages are 1911 and 1922......note: small burn on one side of the chip, my only dupe.  Plain inlay.	$125.00 SOLD OUT
USD-38		CN	the USPC record of this one has the chip sample but is missing the shipping history.  It is near chips dated 1924 and 1925.......plain inlay.	$7.00
USD-34		Columbian Club, St.  Louis, Mo.	have chips in red, blue and yellow.  Fine condition........  Chips were shipped to A. S. Aloe Co., St. Louis, Mo., in 1919, 1923 and 1930......plain inlay	$15.00 each, except yellow is $25.00
USD-72		Commonwealth Club,Worcester, Mass.	¶ red, white ¶ shipped to the Boston Office of USPC Co. in 1914 for the Commonwealth Club.  This is one of the oldest USPC chips in their chip sample-special chip order volumes.There is a notation that the chips were reordered in 1921 and 1923. ¶ Note how the C's have that little pointy "horn" at the top of the C's but not at the bottom.  That is normal.  The red chip in my personal collection is normal (like that) on one side, but by error the inlay was reversed on the other side. Click here to see that mirror image error.	$50.00
USD-11		FS	UFC: shipped in 1914 to F. Grote and Co, NY -- the large NYC gambling supply house.  Square-edged chip.  The shipping record also notes ".127 thickness.".......One chip is left: one side is fine, the reverse has a large edge nick.	$75.00
US-14		GG	UFC: in 1926 shipped to H. C. Evans and Co., Chicago, Ill........plain inlay	$75.00 SOLD OUT
USD-15		HW	ordered by L. Oppleman, Lynchberg, Va.; shipped June 1925......plain inlay	$25.00
USD-16		HJH	have chips in yellow, pink, red and green.  Beautiful square-edged. ... ... ... ....UFC: shipped to B. C. Wills and Co., Detroit, Mich in 1935.	$45
US-60		JLB	¶ red ¶ fine ¶ 1920 shipped to Churchill Drug Co., Cedar Rapids, Iowa.	$25
USD-31		JOY	scanty information in the USPC archives for this chip: "H. C. Evans, Chicago, ILL."   (That is the major gambling supply house.).....Plain inlay.	$50.00 SOLD OUT
USD-19		KT	have chips in white, yellow, pink and green..........Used in Chinse gambling operation in hotel in Stockton CA,after being shipped to H C Evans and Co, the large Chicago gambling supply house, in 1917........Plain inlay.	$20.00
USD-41		NJP	small burn........shipped to Drake & Co, Kansas City, Mo., March 26, 1926.  Plain inlay.	$60.00
USD-20		NP (for Mexico)	USPC records read "Bought through H. C. Evans and Co., Chicago, [the major gambling supply outfit] shipped direct (for Mexico) 4/21/14"  (note: it could be either "NP" or "PN;"  plain inlay.)	$50.00
USD-32		O'Dwyer's (OD), 100 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, La.	May 27, 1929, shipped to A. Baldwin & Co., New Orleans, La., for this poular club..........Plain inlay; unusual to find a colored (non-white) inlay -- red, here.	$55.00
USD-64		Old Southport Club, New Orleans, Louisiana SOLD OUT	¶ white (with red inlay). ¶ fine, just a little sign of use. ¶ Ed Hertel in his Illegal Club guide shows it for that Club and values it at $100. ¶ 1927 shipped to A Baldwin and Co, New Orleans, La.	$35 SOLD
USD-23		University Club of New York City	ordered in 1922 and shipped 1923 to the "New York Office [probably of US Playing Card Co.] for University Club New York City, N.Y." Plain inlay.	$75.00
USD-24		VL	have chips in white, blue, yellow and green..........Chips are unidentified; all we know is that they were shipped in 1934 to large Detroit gambling supply house, B C Wills, but we don't know Wills' customer. ............Plain inlay.	$16.00 each
USD-66		WE	¶ rust-red ¶ fine - OK. ¶ old chip, but modern looking optical illusion design. ¶ 1927 shipped to T R King and Co., Kansas City MO.  (T R King is/was a major gambling supply house, now in Los Angeles.)	$45
USD-26		YC	have in red, white, blue and yellow.  Die cut plain inlays.......UFC:  shipped in 1922 to California Notion and Toy.,  San Francisco,  Calif.....plain inlay.	$45.00 each
USD-27		DC (Dutch's Club, Minneapolis MN)	¶ red ¶ in 1918, 1919 and 1921 the USPC shipped the chips to Emil "Dutch" Nelson in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Dutch was a leading rackateer there, with interests in many Minnesota area clubs.  The Dutch's Club (also known as Metropole Club) was at  26 Washington Ave. South.	$13.00
USD-28		CW (or WC)	¶ white. ¶ we don't know which club these were used at, but they were shipped to the same Emil Nelson noted above in US-27.	$15.00
USD-29		Biltmore Club, St. Louis, Missouri	¶ blue.  Note: there is a "10" on the reverse side. Click here to see it. ¶ In 1929 the chip was sent to Atlas Stores Co., St Louis, MO, for the Biltmore Club, which opened in 1929, closed now.	$25.00
USD-30		Union League Club, San Francisco, California SOLD	¶ white (serrated edge) ¶ Shipped 1923 to Union League Club, San Francisco, Calif.	$75.00 SOLD
USD-31		EA	¶ pink ¶ In 1921, shipped to B. H. Dyas Corp., Los Angeles, Calif., the major department store, which undoubtedly ordered the chips from USPC for one of Dyas' customers.	$40.00

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