Come on, lighten up a little.

I see by his scan that at least two of the chips have obvious cigarette burns on them. If he can document the player/smoker, wouldn't that qualify for "rare"? They appear to me to be the classic burnmark patterns left by Rommel while playing poker in his private desert tent/ August 1943.

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=244729269

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Steve in Albuquerque