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Originally Posted by ishoot308
I did a little googling on your chips as I found them fascinating...
I do not believe they are at all Nazi related. See cut and paste info below I found on another "gambling forum" regarding these chips.
By the way there are tons of these chips on ebay for sale, I just checked...
Pretty cool find!
Dan
"they were made as early as 1902, years before the 3rd Reich. They were made right here in the USA, by the Unites States Playing Card Company, a legacy that continues today with playing cards and the re-entry into chip manufacturing when they bought the Gamblers General Store (RT Plastics) of Las Vegas, NV.
The swastika chips are very common on eBay (100's of thousands were made) and almost always are erroneously tied to Nazi Germany."
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Good info. I was wondering about the same thing.