Hello from Sydney, Australia (1 Viewer)

[Whatsup]

Joined to get some information about an old casino chip I found in my fathers trinket box.

2/6 chip, from Silhouette Casinos

I hope someone can help

Regards
Brian

 

[Suited Connector]

Welcome to PCF! I'm sure someone here can help you with that.

 

[allforcharity]

Hello and welcome!

 

[Phish1321]

Hello and welcome. Posting a pic of it would help

 

[Han Trinh]

Welcome to the PCF. I visited in Sydney last year, what a beautiful city and country you live in.

 

[Mongoose]

Welcome aboard!

 

[Whatsup]

 

[Whatsup]

Sorry it’s very rubbed,

 

[Just1Better]

Welcome to PCF, personally I've never seen a chip like that but my guess is someone here has. Good luck!

 

[allforcharity]

Early H-mold, H. C. Edwards.

"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 in some works, but the Richard Edward Staeffler Memorial California Card Rooms web site attributes them to club at 3628 University Ave, San Diego CA (1974-77). ... ..... As of October 2015, the mold is still being produced in Maine at Classic Poker Chips company, a company that took over from Atlantic Standard Molding in 2013-2014. All their molds can be seen here. The mold is licensed for use in Nevada as of 2014 onwards.

from http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/molddesign_letters.htm

 

[Beakertwang]

Whatsup, whatsup, @Whatsup?

 

[legend672]

Always cool to see a new member from Australia. Vienna is lovely in the wintertime

 

[Northern Paladin]

#Whatsup Welcome to PCF !!! You have arrived at the right place!

# legend672 Certainly Vienna is beautiful. But Vienna is in Austria, not in Australia...

 

[Phantom]

G’day mate, quite a few Aussies now . I’m in Brisbane.

Vienna is a running gag with @legend672 @Northern Paladin

 

[Mark@Wagga]

Wagga checking in.

 

[FlushBlack]

G’Day from W.A.

 

[Northern Paladin]

G’day mate, quite a few Aussies now . I’m in Brisbane.

Vienna is a running gag with @legend672 @Northern Paladin

Thinking of participating in the cultural enrichment of someone, it is ultimately to my own enrichment that I participated...

 

[Panda]

Welcome fellow Aussie!

 

[legend672]

G’day mate, quite a few Aussies now . I’m in Brisbane.

Vienna is a running gag with @legend672 @Northern Paladin

My dad was in Brisbane when he was in the South Pacific in World War II. I guess it was even awesome in the 1940’s , as he spoke of it in glowing terms.

 

[cwebb]

Welcome

 

[WedgeRock]

Greetings, and welcome!

The 2/6 represents 2 shillings/6 pence. Ready for some history? Prior to the conversion to decimals in the early 1970's the British pound was divided into 20 shillings and shillings were further divided into 12 pence (so 240 pence in a British pound). 2/6 was two and a half shillings, also known as a 'half crown' and represented 30 pence, or 1/8th of a British pound.

My best guesses are this chip came from one of these two locations, probably the first one.

http://www.themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=UKLOS1 (no chips shown to verify, but the name matches)

Or

http://www.themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=UKSOSC (name sorta matches, and although chips don't match, but that's not unusual...casinos change racks)

Of the other 2/6 denominations I found, it appears that only one other was on the HCE mold:

http://www.themogh.org/cg_chip_search.php?ccg=171640

Hope that helps. You've got an interesting (and apparently rare) little piece of history right there.