One more rarity for today, some quarter pie TRK $5s from Sharkey’s casino in Gardnerville.
Yeah, I mill all Hot Stamps.... Even chips I just hot stamped.he would probably want to mill them...
This is the thing... The price will stay around the same as long as none are sold which Krish said he will NOT be selling any of them.
If someone else would have had them and started to sell them slowly then the price of the singles would take a major nose dive.
metaYeah, I mill all Hot Stamps.... Even chips I just hot stamped.
looks like the price guide is going to need a makeover after all chips have been revealedCactus Pete and Sharkey chips are "H" in the price guide (30-39).
The Mint $25 chip red denomination is a "V" (450-499)
Cactus Pete and Sharkey chips are "H" in the price guide (30-39).
The Mint $25 chip red denomination is a "V" (450-499)
SOOOO NICE!
Wow, indeed! Love those $1s and $25s!This set doesn’t get as much credit as it should.
Figured it might be time to start showing some of the THC finds from the probate board. I will admit know NOTHING about this chip yet, and there are no other denominations in the collection. Just 201 of these 312 red chips with a pretty cool inlay.
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Just did.Certainly should post those on the chip board to blow their minds.
Figured it might be time to start showing some of the THC finds from the probate hoard. I will admit to knowing NOTHING about this chip yet, and there are no other denominations in the collection. Just 201 of these 312 red chips with a pretty cool inlay. They appear somewhat casino-used.
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Yep. Chip Rack says Z2 ($1100-1600).Last one of those $5s sold somewhere around $750-1000.
How long until we start hearing the stories about Paulson or Christy jones remaking these in the 1990’s?
At first I was a little skeptical, but then after looking at order cards and so on I figured they were the real deal.more of the non-TRK chips to show from this lot, as I believe that it will provide further support that his TRK’s were made in the 1960’s
I'd love to know too because whoever it was knew exactly what they had and could have been associated with gaming in Nevada.I would love to know the name of the deceased who had them, as it might lead everyone to the conclusion that everything is early and original.
I have been collecting since 1994. I didn’t spend much time in the early days with the inner circle. However, I had heard of the small handfuls of chips coming out of TR King at the time. The talk of full reproduction racks started a week ago, and I tend to dismiss it, especially in light of the Holiday chips. Hopefully @Windwalker has more of the non-TRK chips to show from this lot, as I believe that it will provide further support that his TRK’s were made in the 1960’s, not the 1990’s.
I would love to know the name of the deceased who had them, as it might lead everyone to the conclusion that everything is early and original.
You’ve been bullied because a few members here didn’t believe your story? And think you are over-saturating your photos? Wow, that’s some thin skin.John, one of the original reasons I didn’t post a lot of these chips is because I was cognizant of the singles market, and I really didn’t want to cause too much of a stir. I would write / talk about the finds because I thought they were good stories to share with the community.
But then a mini pack of digital hyenas led by a brightly colored rodent decided to continually use micro aggressive taunts and undertake a form of online bullying about these finds I mentioned. For me, chipping is just an escape from the ridiculously crazy work life I lead, and it’s a welcome respite from an exhausting day — there’s something about chips that’s so overwhelmingly joyful, it really helps make the weeks better.
But the taunts / jabs were so consistent, even though I mostly just ignored them, I finally decided that I might as well post some of the finds, if only to quell the noise a little bit.
But, I may have robbed Peter to pay Paul, because now there are all these claims of exact replica chips made by TR King in the 90s.
I’ve actually been quite amused by the sudden claims of racks of casino replica chips with shaped inlays — mostly because if that were true, where are the rest of them? Why don’t the people with the stories and information bring them forward and show us that they exist?
I don’t know enough about the history one way or the other to know what’s real, but I can’t share the provenance just yet because there are still about 30,000 chips, die and other Casino memorabilia left in the estate that I’m negotiating a purchase on.
How come the edge spots don’t match the face on the top chips in the right and back stacks?
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@RainmanTrail answered this before if I remember right.
You’ve been bullied because a few members here didn’t believe your story? And think you are over-saturating your photos? Wow, that’s some thin skin.
But no one threatened to bitch slap you, right? Like you threatened to bitch slap Barrie?
You might have gotten that all scrubbed. You have been able to get it scrubbed multiple times. This post will probably get scrubbed.
But you… YOU threatened to bitch slap someone here and paid no consequence. Maybe you are a bully.
Thank you for this information @RainmanTrail !Yes, I looked into this a few years back. I had some of the earlier issue TRKs that I noticed this on as well. I know I had it on an El Morocco Club $5, and a couple of other chips. I also noticed it again when I was perusing chips at the convention. What I learned was that some colors are more dense than others, and when the chips are compressed, it can create a cavity with certain color combos which results in an adjacent color bleeding over on the edge (it also happens on the surfaces sometimes). If you were to break the chip in half right at that point, you would notice that immediately behind the green overlap, the chip is actually solid orange. It's basically an orange quarter pie piece that is wearing a thin green skin on the edge. David Spragg talks about this phenomenon somewhere (I forget if it was here or on TCB, but I know I've read it before). It's similar to what happens when chips have split spots. One color is more dense than the other and it penetrates the turf of the other color when under pressure, causing the split.
As for the quarter pies not being symmetrical, as someone mentioned above, this is due to the fact that the slugs which are inserted into the molds are larger in diameter than the mold itself, so if they are not placed perfectly in the center, it will cause the trapezoidal effect that @Windwalker refers to above.
As far as whether or not these chips are some sort of 90s replica, I call bullshit. These are 100% authentic issues in my opinion. If you look at the inlays very closely, you'll notice that they are printed on linen, not paper. This was the inlay medium of choice at TRK only in the early years. They would later abandon the linen inlays (perhaps in the 60s? I forget when, but it was decades before the 90s). You can even look at some of the casinos where they had multiple runs of chips made and see that even for the casinos that had linen inlays, they would later switch to paper inlays despite them not being a perfect match when secondaries or tertiaries were produced. While I suppose it's theoretically possible that they kept linen stock laying around for decades in an evil plot to replicate some old chips for the purpose of deceiving a handful of imbecilic singles collectors (remember, these casinos were defunct, and these chips could not have been cashed in at a cage), but I highly doubt it. Also worth noting is the fact that the only people making these claims also happen to be people whose collections stand to lose significant value by the surfacing of these chips. So, they say, "FAKES! REPLICAS!" yet provide zero evidence. I say bullshit. These are absolutely legit. And the fact that his find unearths early/rare TRKs, Paulsons, and C&Js is a meaningful factor as well. Were they all in cahoots then? All 3 being reproduced by the same evil chip deceivers? LOL. No, obviously not. Also worth pointing out is that the manufacturing processes evolved over time. TRK got better at making chips, and their QC improved. The fact that these are "flawed" is further evidence of their place in history.
Dibs on any Four Queens THC.I don’t know enough about the history one way or the other to know what’s real, but I can’t share the provenance just yet because there are still about 30,000 chips, die and other Casino memorabilia left in the estate that I’m negotiating a purchase on.
Those cactus Pete quarters are close enoughDibs on any Four Queens THC.
I don’t know enough about the history one way or the other to know what’s real, but I can’t share the provenance just yet because there are still about 30,000 chips, die and other Casino memorabilia left in the estate that I’m negotiating a purchase on.