Thanks for the thoughtful posts Bill and welcome to the club. You sound like the kind of person who is going to get a lot of enjoyment from the hobby because its about chips and the folks who collect chips, create chips, and put them on the felt from either side of the table that make this so satisfying.

BTW, as might be inferred from the news reports, this isn't the first trove of Lincoln Fitzgerald's gaming artifacts... here's some from an earlier haul!