“The chip collector has a love of history because the chips come from institutions that may or may not any longer be in existence,” said Christine Smith of Glencoe, Ill., who wore a gold diamond-encrusted pendant in the figure of a royal flush and a pair of blackjack card earrings. Many of the 2,000 vendors and enthusiasts who come here each year for the convention think of themselves as both collectors and guardians of the history of gambling around the world. With a portrait of her prim-looking parents, Bettye and Vince Mowery, keeping sentry behind them, the Schultzes worked to reduce the spoils of the Mowerys’ 20-year passion for gathering some might call it hoarding untold thousands of items.Īntique poker chips, made of ivory, at the chip and token collectors annual convention at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Thursday. They sat at a pair of tables crowded with dozens of fat three-ring binders stuffed with chips and coins, all carefully annotated and priced. Schultz and her husband, Paul, spent three days last week at the annual Casino Chip and Gaming Tokens Collectors Club convention at the Riviera Hotel and Casino on the Strip. I’ve since been told my dad had the fourth-largest slot token collection in the world.”Īnd so it is that Mrs.
Schultz of Henderson, Nev., “and we’d come back the next day and it seemed like it would multiply in the evening. “We kept finding ashtrays and playing cards and chips,” said Mrs.
LAS VEGAS Wendy Schultz knew that her parents collected casino memorabilia, but not until they died within a few months of one another in 2005 did she understand the magnitude of their efforts.
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