Not Mine Lucky Dragon Clay Chips? (1 Viewer)

[Godzilla28]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1000-Lucky-...848896?hash=item1c6738a180:g:HtsAAOSwdWBXPMNo

Has anyone seen these and do you know who makes them? China Clay? I've seen the ceramic Lucy Dragon line but I havent seen these spotted, inlaid clay chips...very interesting.

 

[DrStrange]

Sun Fly Ceramic chips, 50 cents each following the link below.

http://www.apollonchips.com/chipseries/lucky-dragon.html

Way better than dice chips -=- DrStrange

 

[Godzilla28]

Sun Fly Ceramic chips, 50 cents each following the link below.

http://www.apollonchips.com/chipseries/lucky-dragon.html

Way better than dice chips -=- DrStrange

Yeah, I like those Ceramic LD too but these look to be China Clay or maybe Clay chips.

 

[BGinGA]

I'd put money on injection-molded plastic before either real or china clay. Edges and mold markings are too sharp for cc, and spots look more like injection-molded vs real clay inserts.

 

[Split]

My money is on ceramic. In the chip shown, it looks like the rolling edge is slightly misaligned. It's shifted slightly clockwise. In addition, the "inlay" appears to be printed on the face of the chip, as you would on a ceramic. A Google image search for lucky dragon ceramic brings up a few results for companies in China that claim to make these chips, and they call them ceramic. It's not conclusive, but I hope that helps!

 

[BGinGA]

As far as I know, Sun-Fly is the only company producing ceramic blanks with actual mold markings. The chip in question does not appear to have printed text surrounding the center circle, which would lead me to believe that it's not ceramic.

Agree that the rolling edge artwork looks misaligned, however.....

 

[Poker Zombie]

The dragon and font both look like the dragon and font Sun-Fly currently sells. That's also not conclusive (because China respects copyright like the Klan respects equal rights), but the circumstantial evidence is piling up for ceramic, Sun-Fly.

 

[maxim_666666]

Sun Fly Ceramic

 

[maxim_666666]

Sun Fly Ceramic

 

[Godzilla28]

I don't see this chip on Sun Fly's website. You guys think its a custom chip or maybe an older chip from Sunfly before they did the ceramic Lucky Dragons?

 

[BGinGA]

I found the new Lucky Dragon chips on the hchpoker.com web site, advertised as a "New Series Of Ceramic Poker Chip". The site/server has been down since Friday night, however:
http://www.hchpoker.com/products_info/New-Series-Of-Ceramic-Poker-Chips--Lucky-Dragon-270493.html

Given all the information available, I believe they are printed on a custom ceramic mold made by Sun-Fly on Apollon Vintage (polyclay) blanks, and likely only available for sale from HCHPoker.com.

Here is a google-cached page of the HPC main page, which lists a link to the Lucky Dragon page along with a picture of the chips:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.hchpoker.com/


EDIT: the site just came back up while typing this response. Here's some more pics:

There is also a Facebook page, and a PDF. No prices.
https://www.facebook.com/hchgameland/
http://www.hchpoker.com/down/upload...mic-Poker-Chips--Lucky-Dragon-164545.pdf.html

 

[Godzilla28]

I found the new Lucky Dragon chips on the hchpoker.com web site, advertised as a "New Series Of Ceramic Poker Chip". The site/server has been down since Friday night, however:
http://www.hchpoker.com/products_info/New-Series-Of-Ceramic-Poker-Chips--Lucky-Dragon-270493.html

Given all the information available, I believe they are printed on a custom ceramic mold made by Sun-Fly on Apollon Vintage (polyclay) blanks, and likely only available for sale from HCHPoker.com.

Here is a google-cached page of the HPC main page, which lists a link to the Lucky Dragon page along with a picture of the chips:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.hchpoker.com/


EDIT: the site just came back up while typing this response. Here's some more pics:

There is also a Facebook page, and a PDF. No prices.
https://www.facebook.com/hchgameland/
http://www.hchpoker.com/down/upload...mic-Poker-Chips--Lucky-Dragon-164545.pdf.html

Wow, awesome detective work, Sherlock! And chips look pretty nice too for ceramics...maybe a good back of the trunk set since ceramics don't warp.

 

[BGinGA]

Note that the 25 and 5000 have aligned edges, but not the 1000 chip..... you can really see the mismatch at the top.

First spots other than simple 438 or the WSOP replicas that I've seen produced on the polyclay blanks by Sun-Fly. I think the 3T18 pattern looks pretty good.

 

[moojersey]

I'll never understand why companies put out chips with non-aligned edges

 

[RainmanTrail]

These actually look pretty decent

 

[Godzilla28]

Yeah, I really liked the T1k chip but the non-aligned edges killed it for me.