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The Chip Board Archive 16

Note on Wrottesley Hall items appearing later for sale

Wrottesley Hall casino was located in the Wrottesley Hall Manor House, Wolverhampton (near Birmingham), UK.
The entire 'rack' was sold at an estate sale about 3 years ago to a friend of mine.
For those that had any doubts as to the quantities that existed, I can recount here, in case you didnt all get the full story from the original seller:
A large proportion of the pieces were fire damaged and thus dumped.
£100 plaques - about 40 (of the 100 made) survived.
£50 plaques - about 60 (of the 200 made) survived.
£1 and £10 jetons - about 300 of each survived.
£5 jetons - about 100 survived.

The seller sold these through ebay, with prices for the plaques intially reaching about $90 for a pair, coming down to about $50.
Similarly, sets of 3 jetons started at about $50, reducing to $25.
It has to be pointed out that the seller sold the best condition examples first (other than a few pieces he kept for himself) so its fair to say buyers got what they paid for.
After the seller had sold about 20 sets on ebay, a single buyer (in London - and also known to me) offered to buy almost all that was left at the full asking price to use on an antique restored French Baccarat table in his London Town House.

As of 48 hours ago, when I checked with him whether he needed any odd pieces, he had absolutely no intention of ever selling them.

What I therefore have for sale today constitutes all that are left available. As these havnt been offered anywhere for a couple of years, I guess there could be some interest here.


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