OP
OP
GamblingGardener
Two Pair
That set was a fake. I feel bad for the person that bought it.
But yes, I may list on eBay if I don't have luck here.
-
This site contains affiliate links. If you choose to make a purchase after clicking a link, Poker Chip Forum may receive a commission at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support!
Canceled Tiffany & Co. Poker Set for sale or trade (3 Viewers)
- Thread starter GamblingGardener
- Start date
- Status
But yes, I may list on eBay if I don't have luck here.
OP
OP
GamblingGardener
Two Pair
The set that sold on eBay was very clearly a fake. Unfortunately this is common for Tiffany items due to their value.
Incorrect keys, plastic chips, wrong cards. I don't think you looked very hard.
BigSlick4523
4 of a Kind
GLWS I would try eBay or offer up or something not sure if this forum will bite on something like this but you never know till you try again GLWS
Geremie
Full House
Guarantee that these are paper. Plus it’s regular index so I’d pass even if 100% plastic.
Definitely cool for a Tiffany collector. Ironic that this forum will not blink at spending multiples of this price for similar numbers of pressed clay chips, but THC or TRk brand get most love/$$$ here so not surprising I guess.
My suggestion would be to keep them and put them in play!
My suggestion would be to keep them and put them in play!
CrazyEddie
Full House
CrazyEddie
Full House
I hadn't seen the fake on eBay, but I have seen the genuine article (or at least pictures of the genuine article) at least once before on eBay; that's how I learned this existed in the first place. No idea what it sold for, or even if it sold at all. It was sometime in the past year, and the listing is probably gone from the eBay archive by now.
also: watch snobs lol
also: watch snobs lol
Teach42
Flush
Checked Worthpoint, couldn't find a single set like this having sold in recent past. The dealer button did go for 279 once though. Seems they gave those out to the final table at some tournament.
GLWS!
GLWS!
OP
OP
GamblingGardener
Two Pair
Correct, the cards are paper.
OP
OP
GamblingGardener
Two Pair
That's a great suggestion. I am absolutely fine with keeping them, but I'm not sure about actually playing with them. Their form is a lot nicer than their function!
I know, but you’d think a high-end luxury brand (whether it’s jewelers or fashion houses) would have the brains to realize that they need to consult with someone who actually knows the game. It would not even have to be chippers, just someone who actually knows something about the game and industry.
I encounter this in other fields all the time... People who are expert in one refined area yet completely unable to translate that experience to another field. They know that there are high standards and expectations and technical considerations in their own work, but forget that the same must be true of other fields.
Example: Big-time movie directors who spend tens or hundreds of millions on actors, writers, sets, costumes, location scouting, continuity, and every other little detail of filmmaking... Then appear to assign their 20-year-old nephew to do the title typography in iMovie. Even a mediocre typographer can often spot really obvious mistakes right in the first few minutes of a movie, which 100% tell you that the person setting the type has no idea what they are doing.
/rant. Anyway... GLWS.
upNdown
Royal Flush
Not quite all. Noble games put out a set or two, with actual Paulson RHCs. Maybe not quite a “luxury” set, but definitely an upscale set. I’m surprised nobody has twisted GPI’s arm to supply them with clays (on a non-casino mold) for a set like that. I guess the problem comes in the marketing - how do you market an actual clay set, when every plastic set in the world is marketed as clay or clay composite?
OP
OP
GamblingGardener
Two Pair
I think this take misses the point that this set is designed to be a piece of art. Function is not necessary. Let's take a look at a van Gogh. Do you also think that a high-end luxury painter should have the brains to realize that they need to consult with someone who knows what a human face actually looks like?
If you want a police sketch of a criminal, don't hire van Gogh and then complain about his work. If you want a functional chip set, don't hire Tiffany.
Stufflymcstuff
Flush
Often art is intended to be unrealistic for effect. I’m not sure that the chips porcelain adds much to the wow factor. If you’re going that route why not use a more exotic material?
Classifieds Rule #42: If any specific chip or chipset doth not match our forum's preconceived notion of an ideal poker set (e.g., materials, colors, quantities), all trashing & trolling rules shall hereby beith suspended.
Good luck on your sale/trade hunt. I, for one, appreciate seeing things outside the "norm" around here.
Good luck on your sale/trade hunt. I, for one, appreciate seeing things outside the "norm" around here.
joepro
Flush
This place is so predictable, I was going to call dibs on the dealer button "if split," and tag @Windwalker .
Oh well, great chips, GLWS!!
Oh well, great chips, GLWS!!
I tagged myself, thank you very much.
joepro
Flush
Yes, I saw that, hilarious.
in each deck.
So many jumps of logic here.
1) It’s not “art.” It’s just something to be sold to people with more money than sense (typically, people who feel their McMansion needs a game room to feel aristocratic, but don’t actually play pool or poker).
Or to sell to friends of couples who registered for their wedding at Tiffany’s.
Anyway,, analogizing commercial products like this to Van Gogh’s process (studio art major here) is silly.
2) No one to my knowledge “hired” Tiffany to make this set. Tiffany chose to make this product to sell to the people described in (1), above.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Locked
