New Chip in the Mail

Well, I wouldn't exactly say new. New to me, but actually pretty old.

One was from Cheyenne, Wyoming and apparently used as a promotion for Frontier Nights, which is the entertainment that takes place after dark during Frontier Days, which currently bills itself as the world's largest outdoor rodeo. Frontier Days started in 1896, and this chip comes from the 1930's.



The other chip comes from the Kentucky Club, in Covington, Kentucky. It's one of the few die-cut metal inlay chips I have in my collection, the others being the very common Mapes Hotel chips. This chip originated sometime in the 1940's or 1950's.

This type of die-cut metal inlay was also used on several chips from the Flamingo in Las Vegas back in 1947, which are some of the more expensive and sought-after chips in the hobby.