Oldest playable chipset on PCF (3 Viewers)

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

I do have a rack of them. LGK is an awesome mold. I didn't realize how much I would like it until I actually had it.

Vintage 70s and 80s

• BearMetal
• Jan 3, 2022
• 10

A small, single table cash set with chips from the 70s and 80s. Included in this set are Paulson...

I picked up these minty LGKs to add to the above set. I need some new pics...

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Really awesome set! I have a few coming to me soon from Casino Kalliste. they will let me add a few higher dollar chips to my set. Then I still need to find an appropriate LGK to add a nickel to the set. I really prefer the option to play nickel / dime. When we used the set in the pics above we played dime / quarter and it went okay. Was a little short stacked with only $20 buy-ins.

Hoping to find either a labeled or hot stamped chip that has a 5 on it, even if it's $5 like your Goldrush chips. Or a blank that I can mill and get Gear labels for. The Dragonaras are one of the two primary sets I currently use for cash games.

 

[BearMetal]

Really awesome set! I have a few coming to me soon from Casino Kalliste. they will let me add a few higher dollar chips to my set. Then I still need to find an appropriate LGK to add a nickel to the set. I really prefer the option to play nickel / dime. When we used the set in the pics above we played dime / quarter and it went okay. Was a little short stacked with only $20 buy-ins.

Hoping to find either a labeled or hot stamped chip that has a 5 on it, even if it's $5 like your Goldrush chips. Or a blank that I can mill and get Gear labels for. The Dragonaras are one of the two primary sets I currently use for cash games.

The Kalliste $1k is H-O-T! I've actually never seen an LGK nickel; do they exist? My one fear about micro stakes sets is that inflation will eventually push them out of use for me.

 

[Sprouty]

@pltrgyst post up your first chip set.

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

The Kalliste $1k is H-O-T! I've actually never seen an LGK nickel; do they exist? My one fear about micro stakes sets is that inflation will eventually push them out of use for me.

The $500 is no slouch either. So am I going to get chastised here if I murder these to put Dragonara labels on them??? I don't know of any large quantity of them or anyone that is accumulating full sets of them. Is there anyone here doing that?

Regarding nickels, before I joined this site, I had never played a game of poker before where I could win or lose more than $20. Except once when I played in a $50 tournament and my pocket Ks got busted in the third hand played!!! I love to play games of all types and grew up playing cards with the family. We had several games where we played for very small stakes. A big loser might be $5 for the night. So I play for the fun of competition, bragging rights over friends and family and to challenge myself to learn games and play better. Poker has never been all about the money for me. So I suspect no matter what happens with inflation that I will always want sets with nickels in them. But that may well just be me. I suspect I'm in a huge minority here on PCF.

 

[ChipFinderSK]

Someone has a playable set of these:

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These are from the Chesterfield Club in Detroit, an underground casino run by mobsters in the 1920s. The "CC" chips were also later used by the same mobsters in the Nevada Club in Reno in the 1940s.

A playable set of these was listed on eBay in 2016. No telling who owns that set now, but it exists. See https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/chesterfield-club-800pc-set.12192/

Are these the same chips? If so, I’m glad I saw this thread - these were scheduled to hit the trash soon:

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

Are these the same chips? If so, I’m glad I saw this thread - these were scheduled to hit the trash soon:
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Do you need my address? I'll make sure they are disposed of properly, and I'll even pay you the postage to send them to me...

 

[Shaggy]

I had a small set of these at one point. I don't see any mention of it here on PCF... must have been in the blue wall days. I sold it to someone on the forum. Looks like they dated back to the late 1950's.

Images courtesy of the chipguide:
http://chipguide.themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=CABIS

 

[CrazyEddie]

Are these the same chips? If so, I’m glad I saw this thread - these were scheduled to hit the trash soon:
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The very same chips! If they need a rescuer, many here will volunteer, including me! I've got a barrel of them myself and would be happy to add on.

 

[gopherblue]

1955 checking in.

 

[gopherblue]

1959-1963 sidles through the door....

(I have more than a rack of the Bananas.)

 

[pltrgyst]

@pltrgyst post up your first chip set.

Does a Maxwell House Coffee can full of pennies in 1954 count?

Like so many others, my first was dice chips. Then various sets of Chipcos. Nothing very exciting...

I think the oldest set I've old was a couple thousand Nevada Club/Lodge, sold a few years ago. I'm not much of a fan of old stuff...except my own personal body parts. Of them, I'm quite fond.

 

[Coyote]

@pltrgyst post up your first chip set.

Reminds of the joke about girl lion cubs asking the King, their grandpa "Grandpa how long has it been since you last got laid?" and the King replying "It's been a while, sweethearts, so you 'd better go play a little farther away".

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

...except my own personal body parts. Of them, I'm quite fond.

TMI buddy...

 

[JWC]

These are early 1950’s.

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I picked up some more at the encouragement of @coolcustomer123.

 

[JWC]

Here are some more…

 

[chipinla]

Here are some more…

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SGK is the absolute best.

 

[pltrgyst]

@pltrgyst post up your first chip set.

Not much to contribute, I'm afraid. Through most of my life, and in the army, cheapo red/white/blue plastic was the best we had -- and we didn't really care. We still played poker somehow...

As to real chips, like most people here, my home game started with dice chips, then got into Chipco ceramics. IIRC, the first chips I ever really cared about were the Chipco WSOP ceramics, 2004 and 2005. And then Chipcovid struck...

 

[pltrgyst]

Not much to contribute, I'm afraid....

A tiny bit, maybe: I forgot that I do have the only known playable set of Borland El Ranchos, 556 chips. Produced in two lots in 1992 and 1995. Bought from Apache in 2012, and augmented by whatever I've been able to find since then from Marlowe and others.

200 $1
185 $5
89 $25
54 $100
15 $500
9 $1000
4 $5000
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556 Chips

 

[PokerDogDoc]

Nice, just wondering what PCF members have that they actually use. Pics of those crest and seal in a set would be amazing to see.

Not casino, but here’s my 600 chip crest and seal / Paranoid 1940’s set of Comets that serves as my T100 tourney set for my monthly home game. Also seen in Gone With the Wind.
Brown = T100
Blue = T500
Yellow = T1000
Red = T5000

 

[chipinla]

Not casino, but my 600 chip crest and seal / Paranoid 1940’s set of Comets that serves as my T100 tourney set for my monthly home game. Also seen in Gone With the Wind.
Brown = T100
Blue = T500
Yellow = T1000
Red = T5000

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Very cool

 

[puglia82]

@chipinla You know what I have. Not the oldest, for sure, but fully playable. Dragonara Palace Malta opened in 1964, and from looking over all their chips from the Chip Guide, I assume the LGKs were their first.

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Malta switched to a decimal system in 1972, based on the lira (equal to the pound) subdivided into 1000 mils or 100 cents.
So your chips denominated in cents have surely been issued later than 1972
Before 1972 maltese pound consisted in 20 shillings (as UK pound)

This is a Dragonara 2 shilling chips (from ChipGuide) worth 10 cents (or 100 mils) in re-denominated maltese lira

edit:
ChipGuide shows order cards dated november 1971 and may 1972

 

[Wheeler Assembly]

1959-1963 sidles through the door....

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(I have more than a rack of the Bananas.)

I have exactly one of the fracs and one of the dollars. I think that does give me the ability to force a sale of your set to me, doesn't it?

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

Malta switched to a decimal system in 1972, based on the lira (equal to the pound) subdivided into 1000 mils or 100 cents.
So your chips denominated in cents have surely been issued later than 1972
Before 1972 maltese pound consisted in 20 shillings (as UK pound)

This is a Dragonara 2 shilling chips (from ChipGuide) worth 10 cents (or 100 mils) in re-denominated maltese lira
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edit:
ChipGuide shows order cards dated november 1971 and may 1972


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Thanks for that correction, I have come to realize after I wrote that post that the hot-stamped LGKs were first, and the inlay versions came later starting in 1971/1972.

 

[gopherblue]

I have exactly one of the fracs and one of the dollars. I think that does give me the ability to force a sale of your set to me, doesn't it?

I'm always willing to entertain offers. Speaking of which...what condition is your $1 in and can I make an offer? Happy to throw in a Bluebird.

 

[Wheeler Assembly]

I'm always willing to entertain offers. Speaking of which...what condition is your $1 in and can I make an offer? Happy to throw in a Bluebird.

 

[Okku]

I've seen some amazing old school sets in here! As a sucker for history I've found myself trying to get older chips and last year I didn't think I was going to get into illegal casino chips or even end up with a set of them, but I did and they are amazing. Truly special stuff thinking that mobsters around the Cicero/Chicago area were playing with these. Sadly they are a little late to Al Capone's era, but I'm sure his brother was still dealing with people when these were in use.

Here's my 4807 Club set with chips from the early 50s to late 50s with $10 chips from an illegal casino from Collinsville, IL that are from 1959. Enjoy!

 

[Okku]

I've seen some amazing old school sets in here! As a sucker for history I've found myself trying to get older chips and last year I didn't think I was going to get into illegal casino chips or even end up with a set of them, but I did and they are amazing. Truly special stuff thinking that mobsters around the Cicero/Chicago area were playing with these. Sadly they are a little late to Al Capone's era, but I'm sure his brother was still dealing with people when these were in use.

Here's my 4807 Club set with chips from the early 50s to late 50s with $10 chips from an illegal casino from Collinsville, IL that are from 1959. Enjoy!

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Forgot to mention. All original Taylor & Co. boxes for all racks too!!