I think it is time to explore my options.

Hi everyone. My name is Terry Lazarus. Some of you may know me...many of you probably don't. I have been on and off the Chipboard for many years. I've been collecting chips for about 20 years and have a woefully outdated website called Chips Off the Old Block. I am approaching age 70 and facing a question that all of you will face some day: What do I do with my chips (and matchbooks and dice and publications)?

I have 3 children...none of whom has any interest in chipping.

My Nevada collection consists of approximately 7,000 chips and I have a dealer inventory of over 16,000 Nevada chips. What are they worth? Whatever a willing buyer and seller agree upon. I recognize the Chip Rack is an invaluable resource for all of us. I also recognize that, taken as a whole, it significantly overvalues many, many individual chips. It is, however, a place to start and provides a frame of reference for all of us.

According to the "low end" of the current edition of the Chip Rack, my collection has a value of about $225,000 and my inventory over $300,000. Are these realistic values?...of course not. I share them merely as the frame of reference I mentioned. The point is, even at a fraction of the previous values, there is significant value both in the collection and in the dealer inventory. I would love to sell the collection and the dealer inventory in its entirety...to either one or two people. I recognize that may not be possible. I would also consider dividing both collection and dealer inventory into 4 sub-collections: Las Vegas, Reno, Lake Tahoe and Small Towns.

If you have interest, please email me at pachipper@aol.com. Thanks for reading my post and Happy Easter to all.