Whoever you are wrote...

"Is chip collecting so secialized that collectors track down green, 10¢ chips from closed clubs with names that start with the letter "R" that were located in towns of more than 1,000 but fewer than 25,000 people? And when they find them they will only add them to their collection if they are in perfect collection?"

Most people don't have unlimited funds to collect everything from everywhere. I'll take it a step further, nobody collects everything from everywhere. There are people in this hobby that have or have had more than one million casino chips in their collections, and even they specialize!

We ALL specialize, and the number of catagories and reasons for choosing them are as varied and different as the number of people involved in the hobby.

As to chip condition, many collectors will wait to buy a chip in better condition than one they might see in an auction or at a show if they believe they will come across one in better condition somewhere down the road. If they don't think that's gonna happen, condition becomes less important.

Bob