I got this record card way back when. I did not have the chips.
2 of these was offered on the BB 10 days or so back. I missed them but a friend got them and passed one on to me. I wanted it mainly because I had a hunch about the initials on it and once again the name on the card looked “Illegal.”

The reason I wanted it for the initials is, I think they stand for American Veterans Lodge. I have several chips with AMC that I know stand for American Veterans Club. Many AM Vets clubs/lodges were fronts for locals gambling operations. Chartered AM Vets/BPOE’s/ Moose Lodges/Eagles enjoyed animintity from most police raids and operators took advantage of that. I know as well as I am typing this, I am right. Sadly I can not prove it in this case.

Hunches have been good to me in the past. I have been looking for a chip with BHV on it for years. The ID has been laying in my top drawer on the back of a free Fiesta buffet coupon for 14 years. Find me one and I will give you the name. Be alert you KY/OH Boys!

Enough of that:

New York:

AVL

Unfortunelately the research failed to turn up a Club name for the chip but it did turn up a lot of history from 1920’s thru 1950.

No date on the card but the buyer did not live at that address after 1936. We have no Club name for Tinny until the late 1940’s and that would be stretching it.

Here is the research on Tinny. From 1924 at the Mayflower Social Club ( too early for the chips) thru being a bigtime boxing promoter and finally indicted for operating Newman's Lake House in Saratoga Springs.
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Anthony "Tinny" V. Lombardo, died while a resident of Rochester during the summer of 1950, age 54 (Tinny: say "Anthony" with a certain accent, then drop the first syllable).

72 Joslyn Place was his residential address in 1936, but not afterwards, so the chip must date sometime from around 1936 or before. In his early 20's Lombardo was the proprietor of a pool room. For many years he was ostensibly involved in the wholesale cigar business.

In the late 1940's he became a boxing promoter in Rochester and was the owner of the Exchange Athletic Club. He died suddenly after becoming ill while attending the races at Saratoga.

A year after his death, a Saratoga County, NY special grand jury named Lombardo as a co-conspirator with Gerard King and others who were indicted as operators of Newman's Lake House at Saratoga Spa (the conspiracy charge had to do with accepting bets). Exactly what Lombardo's relation to King or Newman's Lake House was I don't know.

Here's an article from 1924; Lombardo is president of a small club, Mayflower Social Club, in the back of a cigar store where liquor and gambling devices are found:

Greece (NY) Press--7July1949: