LabMonkey
Flush
I'm always on the lookout for Lakeshore Inn chips to add to my set. Like any good chipper, trolling eBay looking for random singles to snatch up is part of my daily routine. While scanning through the chip listings a couple of days ago, I came across an interesting pair of listings.
Now, I've been looking for these chips so long that I've developed an almost sub-conscience ability to pick out chips with the Paulson 16 spot pattern while quickly scanning through the listings. So when I saw these chips pictured I immediately took a closer look. The original eBay listing was a bad scan job and the chip colors were incorrect but I quickly realized these were Lakeshore chips with stickers over the inlays. Bingo!
After a quick BIN, the chips were on their way to me. I day dreamed "what if" scenarios while waited for their arrival. What if these really were the right chips? If they were, what if I could find whoever labelled them and get more? What if I'd find enough to finally finish the rack of $20s?!
Today the mail lady delivered the goods. On opening the package everything looked great! Well packaged and mint sharp, the chips sent my hopes soaring. Success!
Then the bottom fell out. Upon peeling back one of the stickers I discovered the horrible truth. It wasn't enough to simply label over these fine, mint, beautiful, and innocent Lakeshore Inn chips. No, some fiend strapped them into a mill and stole their majesty. Beautiful shaped inlays milled away to make more room for a lame attempt to create a "prototype chip for a casino that never opened" collectible to hawk in downtown Las Vegas.
It's gonna take a lot of Tequila to get over this one tonight.
Now, I've been looking for these chips so long that I've developed an almost sub-conscience ability to pick out chips with the Paulson 16 spot pattern while quickly scanning through the listings. So when I saw these chips pictured I immediately took a closer look. The original eBay listing was a bad scan job and the chip colors were incorrect but I quickly realized these were Lakeshore chips with stickers over the inlays. Bingo!
After a quick BIN, the chips were on their way to me. I day dreamed "what if" scenarios while waited for their arrival. What if these really were the right chips? If they were, what if I could find whoever labelled them and get more? What if I'd find enough to finally finish the rack of $20s?!
Today the mail lady delivered the goods. On opening the package everything looked great! Well packaged and mint sharp, the chips sent my hopes soaring. Success!
Then the bottom fell out. Upon peeling back one of the stickers I discovered the horrible truth. It wasn't enough to simply label over these fine, mint, beautiful, and innocent Lakeshore Inn chips. No, some fiend strapped them into a mill and stole their majesty. Beautiful shaped inlays milled away to make more room for a lame attempt to create a "prototype chip for a casino that never opened" collectible to hawk in downtown Las Vegas.
It's gonna take a lot of Tequila to get over this one tonight.
