Title: Gambling mother of pearl game chips with a glass wood box
Shipping: $29.00
Artist: N/A
Period: 20th Century
History: N/A
Origin: Northern Europe > England
Condition: Excellent
Item Date: 1920 to 1930
Item ID: 1277
Gambling mother of pearl game chips with a glass wood box This is top casino memorabilia. These are hand made mother of pearl game chips with a wood box and glass top. It has six hand etched twenty dollar mother of pearl gambling chips. If you collect antique ivory poker chips this set is absolutely beautiful. They represent a time, a place and a culture, from obscure illegal Prohibition-era gambling halls to the casinos run by organized-crime figures. Antique casino memorabilia can sell for thousands. collectors and guardians think of them self as the keepers of the history of gambling around the world. "The chip collector has a love of history because the chips come from institutions that may or may not any longer be in existence. "Many of these hard to find chips are just absolutely beautiful."
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_chips
Casino tokens (also known as chips, checks or cheques) are small discs used in lieu of currency in casinos. Colored metal or compression molded clay tokens of various denominations are used primarily in table games, as opposed to metal token coins, used primarily in slot machines. Money is exchanged for tokens in a casino at the casino cage, at the gaming tables, or at a cashier station. The tokens are interchangeable with money at the casino. They generally have no value outside out of the casino. Although the first gambling house was legalised in Venice in 1626, actual poker chips as we now know them were still not used for over two hundred more years. Back in the 1800s and prior, poker players seemed to use any small valuable object imaginable. Early poker players sometimes used jagged gold pieces, gold nuggets, gold dust, or coins as well as "chips" primarily made of ivory, bone, wood, paper and a composition made from clay and shellac. Several companies between the 1880s and the late 1930s made clay composition poker chips. There were over 1000 designs from which to choose. Most chips were white, red, blue and yellow but they could be made in almost any color desired.
