... which some of us have known about for many years and have even visited Maison Caro in Paris to either pick up a catalogue of a sample chip or two.

The well-read student of gambling chips would have known that some of the material beinging offered in Serge's sales were indeed truly rare, where serial numbers and exact matched toning of pieces seen in print 15-years prior were now being offered in front of the whole world.

Click on my site and scroll down to the huge Dix Mille francs Mother-of-Pearl plaque to see a few examples of what I'm talking about.

JB