4) Bud Jones of CJ was the designer of the H&C mold as well as the Horse Head Left mold. TRUE

5) Burt company made inlay's for several different manufacturers - as their records show - albeit that these records may be
interpreted as they made the entire chip... Yet how, with so many different "formulas" (i.e. compositions of base material as who
get the metal disk and who doesn't), who gets brass flecks and who doesn't, who gets lead powder and who doesn't, etc.
Different sizes of chips. Not to mention all the molds used in the 50's and 60's?!?
ONLY 2 MEN CAN ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS AND THEY ARE NOT TALKING. I HAVE TRIED SEVERAL TIMES TO TALK TO BUD. JIM BLANCHARD IS THE OTHER. YOU CAN REST ASSURED THAT CJ NEVER MANFACTURED A CHIP.

6) Bud Jones started his own company to manufacture chips (with metal or coin inlays) after splitting up with Christy (and after Pat Sullivan joined CJ)
PAT SULLIVAN WAS THE CAUSE OF THE CJ BREAKUP. PAT WAS THE OFFICE MANAGER OF THE LV OFFICE. BUB JONES IS THE MOST HONERABLE MAN YOU WILL EVER MEET. PAT WAS CAUGHT SHIPPING CROOKED DICE TO GUS STEVENS SUPPER CLUB IN BILOXI. FBI RAIDED LV OFFICE OF CJ. BUD HAD A POLICY THAT CJ WOULD NOT MAKE ANY CROOKED GAMING EQUIPMENT LIKE MOST OTHER DISTRIBUTORS WERE DOING.

A little history here that you might or might not know.

Before the raid Bill Christy convinced Bud that they should both give Pat Sullivan 1% of CJ. That left Bill and Bud with 49% each in CJ. After the raid Bud was furious but had no recourse. Bill with Pat controlled 51% of CJ.

MY guess is the different H/C molds, composition, etc were a natural progression of trying to make chips better. My guess is the shinny H/C died with the CJ breakup. I was told that Paul Indy had new H/C dies made when he started production in LV. Aren't dies made by diemakers? Can an exact dupe be cut. I doubt it.
Blanchard is the key to 90% of chip history. I believe Bud will take his part of history to the grave.
I feel very confortable saying ALL H/C chips came out of Burt, pre Paul-Son.