Truman's House chips and paraphernalia (1 Viewer)

[bergs]

All I've got....

Chips:
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200 nickels
400 quarters
1380 ones
80 twos (commemorative)
880 fives (including 2 different commems)
220 twenties
100 hundos

On the back rail:
- Plastic single custom chip from Vegas (started me on the hobby)
- Blue 2016 BBOTB6 commems
- Yellow and Brown 2012 BBOTB2 commems
- Green and pink 2011 BBOTB1 commem

Paraphernalia:
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My friends have been very generous with some gifts over the years and my wife has contributed a couple of things.

- Truman's House deck (paper, never used)
- Truman's House pint glasses (LOVE THESE)
- Truman's House growler
- Truman's House cut card (gets heavy use)
- Truman's House game placards
- Truman's House tap handle for kegerator
- Truman's House name badge from BBOTB6

....plus Borg cards, Foxwoods all in buttons, and generic hi/lo game buttons.

 

[Kyle]

Cool setup for sure. (y) :thumbsup:

 

[pltrgyst]

Please stop posting pictures of those $20s -- they just make me wonder what I've been wasting my time and money on for the past ten years...

 

[detroitdad]

Very sexy. Thanks for sharing.

 

[ChaosRock]

Nuttah Buttah!!!!!

 

[bergs]

 

[Chippy McChiperson]

Those twenties stack up real nice. I absolutely love the hundos too!

 

[bergs]

Slug - Jim B gave me this when JM from CT and I went on a tour of the old Maine factory. This is the chip after the inlay has been put on the chip and the edgespots have been cut and pressed but the chip hasn't been through the machine yet to get the mold stamped. Pretty cool.

 

[bergs]

^ starts to give one the sense of the amount of artisan work that goes into making these.

 

[Ben]

1380 ones
80 twos (commemorative)
880 fives (including 2 different commems)
220 twenties

Rare video feed of @jbutler after seeing this breakdown:

RIP Bergs. You had one of the all-time great sets, when you were with us.

 

[Chippy McChiperson]

Everyone has custom tables, what you need is some custom chairs...

 

[guinness]

Loved using those 5c chips last weekend. Yes, we had 5c/10c circus games at Bergs!

 

[bergs]

Those twenties stack up real nice. I absolutely love the hundos too!

ICWYDT

 

[PAZ]

Best set up ever.

 

[churlbut18]

Thanks for posting pics. I've been waiting to see this set.

 

[bergs]

Some people play with these and don't realize that some of the inlays are different....

The original inlay is on the nickels, quarters, ones, twenties, and most fives. It's a picture of Truman hanging out my car window on my lap that J5 masterfully isolated and turned into a really nice inlay picture. Truman was about 4 years old in this picture.

The hundos were ordered with the original set (I think, in 2009 or 2010) and use an inlay picture from a shot my wife got one day with Truman staring at a pumpkin. He was 4 years old in that picture as well.

600 of my $5s have the same inlay (different denom obviously) as the $20, but almost 300 of them have a newer inlay that commemorated our move to our current house in 2012. This picture is from when Truman was 3 years old or so, and I call it the bow-tie picture - his neck rolls look like a perfect white bow-tie. I took this picture of him one day in the sun when he refused to come inside. Stubborn lovable bastard!

About 60 of these have a different edgespot - when I had this done in late 2011/early 2012, ASM didn't often do this sort of edgespot, so Jim B did me a favor to make 'em but they were significantly laborious and we had the remaining 240 or so of my add on order use the original $5 edgespot.

On the $2 commemorative chip (also a live $2 chip but only 110 or so exist and I only have have 80 left), you can see Truman has aged a bit - actually a lot. This was taken in December 2014 when he begrudgingly agreed to get dressed up for a Christmas card - he's 8 years old in this picture and he's started to lose some muscle structure in his lovable scrunched up face, and his brown spot over his right eye is faded.

The commemorative non-denominated (not live) picture in the BBOTB6 chip from this year is from 2013 when he got dressed up for his birthday (with that ridiculous hat my wife put on him, which lasted about 4 microseconds longer that it took to get this picture). He still has that full bulldog face and the brown spot over his right eye is visible but you have to look for it.

The whole progression - and look for a 2017 BBOTB7 commem as well in the coming months.

 

[onerand]

QUOTE="bergs, post: 250703, member: 323"]Slug - Jim B gave me this when JM from CT and I went on a tour of the old Maine factory. This is the chip after the inlay has been put on the chip and the edgespots have been cut and pressed but the chip hasn't been through the machine yet to get the mold stamped. Pretty cool.

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Nice, and l also like the 5 cent chips.

 

[Puggy]

Kool story and awesomest set. Thanks for sharing

 

[courage]

Great set! Nice pics and goodies, berg! Hope to play with them again soon.

 

[Max D]

great set and not only chips but everything around.(y) :thumbsup: