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The Official Mail Showcase Thread (poker related) (87 Viewers)
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Kid_Eastwood
4 of a Kind
I was just curious about who's the manufacturer and some details (e.g. you said it's Poker size, ...).
No big story, got from @TheJestyr who sold to others as well. Used setups, don't know where and for how long, but I can definitely say this: no evidence of ink fade anywhere.
WedgeRock
Royal Flush
All the $25s came from @TheJestyr... He doesn't have any chips that fill my needs.
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mail call chippers!
Got these from a sweet lady on marketplace. Even shipped them in a cute little change purse. I may use the lil bag to keep my re-loads in at the casinos.
Nothing is more manly than pulling a couple of $25’s or an hundo out of your Granny’s old change purse. It even smells like dusty old grandma farts!
Got these from a sweet lady on marketplace. Even shipped them in a cute little change purse. I may use the lil bag to keep my re-loads in at the casinos.
Nothing is more manly than pulling a couple of $25’s or an hundo out of your Granny’s old change purse. It even smells like dusty old grandma farts!
Pippa
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jayfiggy
Two Pair
Pippa
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More of the empress please….
I'll get a few pics in here tomorrow when it's bright. Still haven't unboxed them and racked them up.
I just noticed that my last post shoulda been in live stacks…
This is mail right??
This is mail right??
Wow these came out great!! Maybe this needs to be my Tina tournament set
Pippa
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DAMMMMMMMMMM
ef28
High Hand
And so my journey begins. Wanted to buy a few different chips to see what I wanted to build a set with. Love the color of the flamingos! Also go some cool PCF items.
Can't go wrong with spotted flamingos!
anstossfreak
Flush
Finally I'm someone!
pokerkid05
Pair
Flea market find! Stupid set but this could come in handy if you and a buddy get stuck in a pup tent or canoe and need some chips!
Just replace those cheap plastic interlocking chips with those circle-square ones and a nice deck of faded spades
I can only fit a shuffle stack and a deck! Dumbest way to carry around 12 chips
chipinla
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facinfears217
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AlbinoDragon
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Proper first world problems here. Too much time away for the holidays or at work but also having bulletproof high speed internet during that time leads to coming back to the office with a pile of padded envelopes with the spoils of eBay wins and buys waiting. 
The problem with being a singles collector is those fun singles start to add up. Several new Vegas ones, some older ones as well. A couple of anniversary chips in the bottom row as well (the Hollywood Park $5 on the bottom right was the first chip that had me properly confused all the way back to my earliest days on ChipTalk. I couldn't quite figure out what alchemy was happening here. It was only a couple years later that I found out it was an 8AV spot on a yellow base with an oversized inlay. Maybe one of the first 10 chips that turned me into a chipper..). The Desert Inn over-label has been an oddity I've had my eye on for a while and I was finally able to find one that wasn't abusively overpriced. Had to add to the YOT Dragon collection... as a dragon in the year of the dragon had to happen (there weren't many this cycle, which makes this particular dragon rather sad). The "poker" poker-chip struck me as funny at the time, and I couldn't pass it up.
But wait! There's more!
An un-used (or murdered) CIC center from a chip from the Castaways in Vegas. There's no evidence of the rest of the chip on the surface or the gap along the edge that would have held it into the base of the chip it was (would have been?) in so maybe extracted from a chip but maybe never made it into one and "grew legs" out of the factory.
The winner from this cycle:
A quite uncommon $5 chip from early in the history of the El Rancho Vegas. The foil in the hot-stamp is long gone, but the embossed detail is still quite clear in this one. I had long confused this with the edition just after this one and assumed I had most of my early El Rancho collection settled. It was only after this appeared and a deeper dive into the history told me this was a piece that was missing.
It looks like only 500 were made (the older price guide from Campiglia and Wells has this listed as "unique"!) and I figured I should pounce while I could. It's not my favorite El Rancho chip in my collection*, but easily the rarest of the group.
Only a couple stragglers still in the mail and those are non-chip related items. Just enough time to take a breath and maybe work on the "last chance" CPC set I don't really need.
Enjoy!
* My favorite El Rancho in my collection is a hub-mold $100. It's nominally black with three 1/4 beige spots, but in this case it must have been on the outside of a stack or barrel when the fire swept through. The inlay is in mostly OK condition but the spots have been turned black. At first glance, it's an error chip with the inlay on a solid black chip, but flip it over and the chip looks perfect and pristine and as one would expect straight from the factory.
When I opened the Air-Tite it was shipped in, it smelled like a campfire.... The aroma of the smoke of the fire that burned down the El Rancho still intact!
I don't open it on purpose... mostly to preserve that as best I can, but that ties it with the MGM Grand "bite-night" $100 I have as the chips with the most history.
The problem with being a singles collector is those fun singles start to add up. Several new Vegas ones, some older ones as well. A couple of anniversary chips in the bottom row as well (the Hollywood Park $5 on the bottom right was the first chip that had me properly confused all the way back to my earliest days on ChipTalk. I couldn't quite figure out what alchemy was happening here. It was only a couple years later that I found out it was an 8AV spot on a yellow base with an oversized inlay. Maybe one of the first 10 chips that turned me into a chipper..). The Desert Inn over-label has been an oddity I've had my eye on for a while and I was finally able to find one that wasn't abusively overpriced. Had to add to the YOT Dragon collection... as a dragon in the year of the dragon had to happen (there weren't many this cycle, which makes this particular dragon rather sad). The "poker" poker-chip struck me as funny at the time, and I couldn't pass it up.
But wait! There's more!
An un-used (or murdered) CIC center from a chip from the Castaways in Vegas. There's no evidence of the rest of the chip on the surface or the gap along the edge that would have held it into the base of the chip it was (would have been?) in so maybe extracted from a chip but maybe never made it into one and "grew legs" out of the factory.
The winner from this cycle:
A quite uncommon $5 chip from early in the history of the El Rancho Vegas. The foil in the hot-stamp is long gone, but the embossed detail is still quite clear in this one. I had long confused this with the edition just after this one and assumed I had most of my early El Rancho collection settled. It was only after this appeared and a deeper dive into the history told me this was a piece that was missing.
It looks like only 500 were made (the older price guide from Campiglia and Wells has this listed as "unique"!) and I figured I should pounce while I could. It's not my favorite El Rancho chip in my collection*, but easily the rarest of the group.
Only a couple stragglers still in the mail and those are non-chip related items. Just enough time to take a breath and maybe work on the "last chance" CPC set I don't really need.
Enjoy!
* My favorite El Rancho in my collection is a hub-mold $100. It's nominally black with three 1/4 beige spots, but in this case it must have been on the outside of a stack or barrel when the fire swept through. The inlay is in mostly OK condition but the spots have been turned black. At first glance, it's an error chip with the inlay on a solid black chip, but flip it over and the chip looks perfect and pristine and as one would expect straight from the factory.
When I opened the Air-Tite it was shipped in, it smelled like a campfire.... The aroma of the smoke of the fire that burned down the El Rancho still intact!
I don't open it on purpose... mostly to preserve that as best I can, but that ties it with the MGM Grand "bite-night" $100 I have as the chips with the most history.
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I had my eyes on that El Rancho, nice grab! It's beautiful!Proper first world problems here. Too much time away for the holidays or at work but also having bulletproof high speed internet during that time leads to coming back to the office with a pile of padded envelopes with the spoils of eBay wins and buys waiting.
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The problem with being a singles collector is those fun singles start to add up. Several new Vegas ones, some older ones as well. A couple of anniversary chips in the bottom row as well (the Hollywood Park $5 on the bottom right was the first chip that had be properly confused all the way back to my earliest days on ChipTalk. I couldn't quite figure out what alchemy was happening here. It was only a couple years later that I found out it was an 8AV spot on a yellow base with an oversized inlay. Maybe one of the first 10 chips that turned me into a chipper..). The Desert Inn over-label has been an oddity I've had my eye on for a while and I was finally able to find one that wasn't abusively overpriced. Had to add to the YOT Dragon collection... as a dragon in the year of the dragon had to happen (there weren't many this cycle, which makes this particular dragon rather sad). The "poker" poker-chip struck me as funny at the time, and I couldn't pass it up.
But wait! There's more!
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An un-used (or murdered) CIC center from a chip from the Castaways in Vegas. There's no evidence of the rest of the chip on the surface or the gap along the edge that would have held it into the base of the chip it was (would have been?) in so maybe extracted from a chip but maybe never made it into one and "grew legs" out of the factory.
The winner from this cycle:
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A quite uncommon $5 chip from early in the history of the El Rancho Vegas. The foil in the hot-stamp is long gone, but the embossed detail is still quite clear in this one. I had long confused this with the edition just after this one and assumed I had most of my early El Rancho collection settled. It was only after this appeared and a deeper dive into the history told me this was a piece that was missing.
It looks like only 500 were made (the older price guide from Campiglia and Wells has this listed as "unique"!) and I figured I should pounce while I could. It's not my favorite El Rancho chip in my collection*, but easily the rarest of the group.
Only a couple stragglers still in the mail and those are non-chip related items. Just enough time to take a breath and maybe work on the "last chance" CPC set I don't really need.
Enjoy!
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