[noelsarchs]

Updated Jan. 2, 2008 with the following information on the origination of the original Palmas chips...

Here it is, from the guy who bought most of them from Spinetti's.....hopefully someday, Jim Blanchard from ASM will fill in any missing information on this casino and these chips.

Considering the recent interview with Jimb of ASM, I'd be very interested to here about the claim below regarding the use of a higher content of clay and brass flecking as well as the horsehead mold itself. I might just post this as well in that thread to see if Jim will chime in with some useful updates.

Keep in mind that this was written long before ASM started offering chips with the various edge spots to the home market, aka chiptalk.

"The history of these chips and the long journey they have made is interesting. Not too many details are known, but the following facts about the chips have been confirmed to the best of our abilities. If anyone has any further information about these chips, please feel free to share them with me via email.

The Palmas Club Casino was set to open sometime in 1991 in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. Due to reasons unknown this never occurred.
The Langworthy Casino Supply company had been given the opportunity to provide chips and other casino related merchandise to the Palmas Club Casino.

Atlantic Standard Molding (ASM) made the Palmas Club Casino chips in November of 1990. At this time, ASM did not even own the Horsehead mold used for these chips. The Horsehead mold was the property of Langworthy Casino Supply.

The original quantity of chips ordered was supposed to be 200,000+ chips. Only 30,000 chips were made. The rest of the order was cancelled when Langworthy found out that things were falling apart with the casino. Langworthy ended up getting stuck with the 30,000 chips that had been produced.

These chips were made at a time when ASM used a higher content of clay and a heavier amount of brass flecking within the casino chips they produced. One great unique thing about them of course is their edge spotting patterns, this is something ASM will not easily produce for anyone these days. The chips are extremely similar to the real Paulson casino product made over the last decade; extremely high content of clay, crisp sharp edges and the unmistakable feel/sound of real clay.

These ASM chips also contain a beautiful brass flecking within them which gives them added weight and a great shimmer on the edge. Original ASM Horsehead made chips are by far my favorite real clay chip. The detail in the Horsehead Mold and the brass flecking set them apart from Paulson.
When I acquired the remaining balance of inventory almost all of these chips were still in the original boxes that ASM used in the early 90's.

The boxes have a faux leather finish and are made of cardboard. Many of these boxes were dated and initialed by the owner of ASM, Jim Blanchard.
The boxes are dated "11-20-1990". The boxes are in fair to good condition.
The chips are all in NEW condition as they never saw the inside of any casino and have never been used in live play anywhere. These chips had been sitting in various warehouses for about 14 years until a lucky distributor in Las Vegas acquired them (all 30,000+). About 12,000 or so were sold off before I acquired the remaining 17,010 chips*. I kept a 20-pack of each denom** in the interest of sharing some of these beautiful chips with friends in the coming years... "














The following items are for sale and are from REAL casinos that have either closed or never opened


Crystal Park


10 $5 Year of Nearly mint Not complete by 2 with one dup. $9 each
7 $100 Mint with the peach/brown 6 edge spots, not the ugly one, but the pretty one....$15 each


3,000 Palmas Club Casino by ASM

UPDATE:
I now have only one full large playable set of US $ series left. approx. 660 chips. 280 $5, 280 $25 and 100 $100 will also add a number of RD $500 with this set but no more than 200.

Of the RD $ series, I have only 2 sets of 600 chips left which include the $500 chips. 500 $25, 300 $100 and 400 $500.





US $ series chips will sell for $2.00 each US series chips have the 1/2 edge spots.

RD $ series at $2.50 each. RD series chips have the 1/4 edge spots.

US and RD $5 chips only sold as part of a set of 600 or more.

RD $500 also as part of a set at $3 each.

The RD $25 with arc yellow, $100 RD with lavender are not available. I paid up to $4 each for these chips, so if you want these two chips, this is the price...$4 per chip.


The ultra rare $500 US and the RD $5000 available at $25 each.



NOTE: I am ordering via the group buy 1,000 more chips that are hopefully going to be Palmas look alikes starting with a $500 Chip, and a $1000 yellow, $5000 pink and two different $10,000 Blacks. I will sell those to anyone at my cost including reorders to anyone purchasing a set of these beautiful chips.
The following chips are NOT available unless part of a massive sale of the entire Palmas collection: The $1 RD and US, $25 US with split white edge spots.


Sample sets of 9 chips Palmas Club Casino by ASM
$25 per set PLUS $2 SHIPPING. INSURANCE IF WANTED IS $2.20
Price reduced to $20 per set of 9 plus shipping.



The following set contains the rarest chips of the set but are not included in the 9 sample chip set above.
These chips are known by many to be some of the rarest. I'm selling the full 15 chip set for $250 and there are only 20 available.



Vineyard Casino (not currently available until July 200

75 $100 Mint, 4 edge spot primary chip, $8 each
100 $3 Mint,
100 $5 Near Mint,

1 set of 600 containing 260 $1 well used, 100 $3 good, 240 $5 good





800 Maxamillion Casino Bud Jones best chips ever made. (not currently available until July 200
2 Sets of 400 (300 $25 and 100 $100) for $1200 EACH SET. These are the only two sets available.



UPDATE: 5/17/07 I have only 20 chips left of the $500's that I will sell as part of a set of 400 chips for $50 each or $30 each if you buy the last remaining 800 chips noted above. These chips alone are worth the entire purchase because you absolutely cannot find them and only 170 of these chips were acquired by the original buyer.




















Olivia's Poker Hall 5 @$1, 10 @$2, 5 @ $5; $7 each




FANTASY CASINO CHIPS:

Paulson Casino de Isthmus Bond original chips not the blue chip and not the 2005 models. $3.15 each. No more $100's available.

$1 x 90
$5 x 50
$25 x 30
$100 x 0
$500 x 150
$1000 x 120




300 Fabulous Las Vegas
$500 and $1000 @ $4 each. Have 20 or more each of the $1, $5, $100, $500 and $1000.



60 Scandia Casino @ $5 each. 20 each of thje $100 and $500 woth shaped inlays. See previous ebay listings by others where these are listed at upwards of $20 per chip.



200 Michael Graves with rack, $10 (not currently available until July 200



50 Borland Commemoratives
$4.50 each for the $1 through $100 in second picture, $9 each for the $500 and up in the first picture. These prices are lower that those you will find on ebay and on Eisenstadt's page.







500 ct. new in box chip cases from 5stardeal, 5stardeal.com vinyl with wood trays, $25 each plus $12 shipping (retail $99 at 5star as of March 06). 7 available Picture at bottom shown with the Bond chips. These cases are quite nice with wood chip tray holding 75 chips per row. NOW ONLY 3 CASES REMAINING. (not currently available until July 200






Will take private offers only for the Dunes set, one 300 used and one 300 mint.

Paulson Cards new and sealed, $4 each (not currently available until July 200

Closed casino repackaged cards, $4 each

WSOP DVD's bootleg copies purchased from acepokerchip...as soon as I find them, I'll list which ones I have available.

And finally about 50 sample chips from various manufacturers...and old casinos. listing to be updated.

Shipping will be exactly as it costs, no more no less other than what it costs to pack them.

There are at least six people who are chiptalk regulars who have purchased from me via ebay over the past two years or offline so my track record is flawless.

I PREFER personal check or cashiers check or money order. Anything other that paypal because they take 5%, so if using paypal, then you will have to add 5% to the final price.

[PTjvs]

Your post says 2,500 Vineyards, but only 1,000 are listed. Do you have other demons?

I dropped a lot of cash today on these, so I can't afford anything right now, but if you still have this stuff in a week or so, I may pick up some $20s & $100s =)

jvs

[pokerface1]

I might be interested in the crystal park chips depending on the denominations!!

[noelsarchs]

Originally Posted by PTjvs

Your post says 2,500 Vineyards, but only 1,000 are listed. Do you have other demons?

I dropped a lot of cash today on these, so I can't afford anything right now, but if you still have this stuff in a week or so, I may pick up some $20s & $100s =)

jvs

Don't worry about a week or two, I have enough listed here that this sale could take a year anyway....unless someone wants to start up a small casino and buy the entire lot at once.

[cynabear]

Pm sent for CP chips and case.

Cyna

[jldecarlo]

pm sent.

L

[jadillon]

pm sent

[PTjvs]

Originally Posted by noelsarchs

1,500 Vineyard Casino
$1 Mint x 700 chips, $3.00 each
$20 Mint x 160 chips, $9 each
$25 Mint x 40 chips, $35 each
$100 8 spot Mint x 300 chips, $6 each
plus 300 used 1 through 5

Give us some prices on the used small denoms, I'm building a set to actually play with anyways

jvs

[noelsarchs]

The Palmas and Maxamillions are being sold as sets of your size and choice with proper breakdowns between denominations. I have no flexiblity with the Maxamillions as there are only 2 chips, a $25 and $100. The $500 Maxamillion chip is not for sale as the seller has requested the option to buy them back in one year. The Palmas I have a lot more options, but again the set has to be made up with a proper breakdown.

Most of my other chips can be chosen at will to your needs.

Thanks all for your understanding....

[Wylecoyo]

Originally Posted by noelsarchs

Revision to original listing below:

My mailbox is getting flooded with requests for small sets, requests for ONLY or primarily the ultra rare chips, or just the most valuable denominations of the lots, i.e. $100's etc.

Unless I sell larger sets, I cannot entertain selling off the most valuable part of a set in a pick n choose the cream of the set and be left with a lot of chips that cannot be made into usefull sets.

I was able to obtain some of these ultra rare chips by buying thousands of chips as part of the buy, so I have to sell thousands of them to be able to offer those ultra valuable chips as part of the sets I have listed.

So please, I cannot sell all my Maxamillion $100 chips without selling the other 1500 $25's along with them and in a proper breakdown for a set to be playable. I cannot sell just my $100 Dunes for the same reason, and as well for the Palmas $500 US and $5000 RD of which there were only about 300 each made.




OK, I need to scale down my holdings here and let some others have a chance to own some of these unbelievable chips. I'm keeping one full set of everything listed for myself so I won't be completely liquidated.

Please note that I ship once per week on Saturday only.

I've been receiving tons of emails via ebay, former buyers, other chip sites and just can't keep track any longer, so everything is going to be listed here on chiptalk.net.

The following items are for sale and are from REAL casinos that have either closed or never opened:

300 Dunes MINT with a few that seem to be warped with age. $1,900 includes 150 $5, 100 $25 and 50 $100.

6,000 Palmas Club Casino by ASM
US $ series chips will sell for $2.05 each in 300 set orders. RD $ series at $2.25 each in 300 set orders.
Individual denomination orders of one type chip will be on a negotiated basis and at $2.50 per chip.
This is the average cost of what I paid for these from four different sellers over the past two years in order to put together complete useable sets. Large sets must be put together with different denominations so I don't get short stacked on one or overstocked with others.
Anyone ordering more than 500 chips can purchase up to 5 each of the US $500 and RD $5,000 chips at $35 each.
NOTE: I am ordering via the group buy 1,000 more chips that are hopefully going to be Palmas look alikes starting with a $500 Chip, and a $1000 yellow, $5000 pink and two different $10,000 Blacks. I will sell those to anyone at my cost including reorders to anyone purchasing a set of these beautiful chips.
The following chips are NOT available unless part of a massive sale of the entire Palmas collection: The $1 RD and US, $25 US with split white edge spots.

Sample sets of 9 chips Palmas Club Casino by ASM
See listing on eBay

1,500 Vineyard Casino
$1 Mint x 700 chips, $3.00 each
$20 Mint x 160 chips, $9 each
$25 Mint x 40 chips, $35 each
$100 8 spot Mint x 300 chips, $6 each
plus 300 used 1 through 5

1,300 Maxamillion Casino Bud Jones
6 chip increment containing 5 @ $25 and 1 @ $100 $15 per set of each set of 6 chips. Or Tournament sets of 600 chips (500 $25 and 100 $100) for $1,500.
Note: I will not sell only the $100's alone. They must be part of a full set purchase on a 4 to 1 or more ratio.

600 Crystal Park (will update quantity and denominations)

Crystal Park original 500 chip case, $50 SALE PENDING

Olivia's Poker Hall 20 @$1, 20 @$2, 5 @ $5; $7 each

400 Rincon $1 ASM HHR; .75 each

FANTASY CASINO CHIPS:

1,000 Paulson Casino de Isthmus Bond original chips not the blue chip and not the 2005 models. $2.90 each

300 Fabulous Las Vegas
$500 and $1000 @ $4 each

60 Scandia Casino @ $5 each.

500 Nevada Jacks clay, $425 SOLD

200 Michael Graves with rack, $10

50 Borland Commemoratives
ave $5 to $10 each

500 ct. new in box chip cases from 5stardeal, vinyl with wood trays, $25 each. 8 available

4 acrylic 1000 chip Birdcages from Chipco, $45 each

43 mm racks from chipco, $8.25 each

2 - 650 count metal chip cases new, $25 each
2 - 600 count metal chip cases new, $20 each
1 - 500 count metal chip case new, $20
1 - 500 count used case, $5

8 Matsui Plaques up to $1 million, $10 each

Paulson Cards new and sealed, $5 each

Closed casino repackaged cards, $5 each

WSOP DVD's bootleg copies purchased from acepokerchip...as soon as I find them, I'll list which ones I have available.

And finally about 50 sample chips from various manufacturers...and old casinos. listing to be updated.

Shipping will be exactly as it costs, no more no less other than what it costs to pack them.

There are at least six people who are chiptalk regulars who have purchased from me via ebay over the past two years or offline so my track record is flawless.

I PREFER personal check or cashiers check or money order. Anything other that paypal because they take 5%, so if using paypal, then you will have to add 5% to the final price.

Good Luck Sir!