Some more slow rolling from my Reno estate find that was stuck in probate court forever. Not an expert on TRKs, but I don’t think these are seen too much in barrel or rack quantities.
These are 60s issued chips from the El Cortez Hotel in Las Vegas. There’s some healthy debate on The Chip Board that these and the Sands chips were replicas made by TR King for the public in the 1990s, but I tend to disagree with that assertion for 3 reasons:
1. Weights indicate they’re most likely leaded, and as far as I know, the 90s reproductions were not (like the King’s Crown fantasy chips with round inlays.)
2. The provenance documents from the late owner whose estate I purchased these from show these specific chips have been in his possession since 1976 (and the Sands chips since 1981.)
3. If they were publicly available in the 1990s as some claim, then it’s curious why more of them don’t exist in the chipping community (like the King’s Crown chips.)
Either way, they’re pretty chips, and some unique examples of TRKs.
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very, very cool find.