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Baja California Chip Of The Day!Rare Small Key!

Yes, nice chip, Stu. Later tonight I'll start an eBay auction for this small key chip, the only one I have:

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In September I auctioned the same chip with a Large Crown mold, also the only one I had. It went for $113. :

scarce Foreign Club (1920s - 1937 when gambling was made illegal in Mexico), Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, Large Crown club chip

DESCRIPTION: Up for auction, at a low opening bid, is the above pictured chip, of which I have just this one. The Foreign Club was a high class gambling club located on Avenida Revolution in Tijuana. This chip is valued $50 to $150, depending on condition, in Armin's 2010 California Chip Guide [The small key mold one is given the same value.]. As its name implies, the Foreign Club was frequented by US citizens from California, including the Hollywood elite, since gambling was illegal in California, and Tijuana was only some 20 miles past the Mexican border. Two known owners of the Club were Wirt Bowman and James Crofton, who later owned the stunning Agua Caliente Hotel-Casino resort in Tijuana along with Baron H. Long and probably a forth secret partner in Abelardo L. Rodríguez, Military Commander and Governor of Baja California, and future Mexican President. (Many people had secret interests in these clubs. In Paul J. Vanderwood's book about Agua Caliente and the vices of the Tijuana locale,"Satan’s Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America’s Greatest Gaming Resort" (available at Amazon.com), it is interesting to read how one group would open a new club, and then partners in the old club would demand an interest in the new place because it would drain some of the profits from the old place!) The success of the Foreign Club was the inspiration for the owners of the Hotel Agua Caliente. Learn more about the Agua Caliente resort by clicking this link to my web page. MARGARITA CARMEN CANSINO started her career at the Foreign Club at the age of 14 years where she danced with her father. She was discovered here and went on to stardom as RITA HAYWORTH. Return privileges.

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Marlene Dietrich watching Victor McLaglen (in WW I military uniform) gambling at roulette in Josef von Sternberg's "Dishonored" (1931). Dietrich plays a Viennese pros_titute, working as a spy by seducing enemy officers, but when she falls in love with a Russian spy, she lets him go, and is sentenced to be shot by a firing squad.
http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/StillsC_FemaleStars.htm

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California Chip Of The Day! Rare Small Crown!!!
very nice, thank you 4 shareing.
Baja California Chip Of The Day!Rare Small Key!

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