Remember the Epiphany ceramics? (1 Viewer)

[gaberr]

I think it may have been a chipco competition.
I designed the edge spots and got a free 300 chip set that I was able to customize the denominations on. They ended up offering a set with a very similar style for purchase.

The green is a little dark in normal house lighting in the evening but otherwise good enough.

I used no $ sign as we played tournament with 800 starting stack 5 10 blinds, then played nickel dime dealers choice until the wee hours of the morning. Ran two tables twice a week and had a shit ton of fun inventing games. This was 2005 era before deepstack poker so the structure was relative to what it is today.

I love the feel and sound of these ceramics. They have held up fantastically being stored in the case and have been exposed to heat, cold, humidity and dry with no adverse effects.

 

[BGinGA]

Those are nearly identical to the Venerati ceramics offered by Side Pot (which were not made by Chipco; most likely by Sun-Fly).

 

[gaberr]

Those are nearly identical to the Venerati ceramics offered by Side Pot (which were not made by Chipco; most likely by Sun-Fly).

Ahhh yes it was sidepot. It was so long ago. Someone else designed the face layout with the scrollies and got a set as well. Maybe a third person designed the font and got a set.

 

[BGinGA]

I have no doubt your Epiphany chips pictured above were made by Chipco (the outer white wear ring is a dead giveaway). Stefan / Sidepot sold another ceramic chip line (Archetype) which was also produced by Chipco.

But his Venerati ceramic chip line came later, and was marketed as a budget chip costing less than half of the Archerypes -- and did not have the distinctive Chipco white ring.

It did, however, share your Epiphany's edge spots (one of my all-time ceramic favorite edge treatments, so tyvm), with identical scroll artwork and very similar center 'inlay' area art.

The Venerati chip denominations included 25c $1 $5 $25 $100 $500 $1000 $5000 $25,000 and $100,000, along with three generic chips (red, white, and blue with no denominations).

I had a large 1000+ chip tournament set, which was my first 'expensive' non-plastic set. I eventually sold them a few years later, after I discovered mint leaded casino Paulson chips.

 

[gaberr]

I have no doubt your Epiphany chips pictured above were made by Chipco (the outer white wear ring is a dead giveaway). Stefan / Sidepot sold another ceramic chip line (Archetype) which was also produced by Chipco.

But his Venerati ceramic chip line came later, and was marketed as a budget chip costing less than half of the Archerypes -- and did not have the distinctive Chipco white ring.

It did, however, share your Epiphany's edge spots (one of my all-time ceramic favorite edge treatments, so tyvm), with identical scroll artwork and very similar center 'inlay' area art.

The Venerati chip denominations included 25c $1 $5 $25 $100 $500 $1000 $5000 $25,000 and $100,000, along with three generic chips (red, white, and blue with no denominations).

I had a large 1000+ chip tournament set, which was my first 'expensive' non-plastic set. I eventually sold them a few years later, after I discovered mint leaded casino Paulson chips.

That's what I'm saying. It was a design competition on chiptalk.net from sidepot. The agreement was that we provided designs for the venerati set with the reward being free chips. I think the face designer got 500 chips. I got 300. For some reason, I thought it was called Epiphany because that's what I put on my denomination area that I was allowed to modify as I was a finalist.