I think the use of inlay color in TCR is as one of the fields that helps distinguish similar chips. I suspect though that it originally meant the color of the paper/plastic that gets printed on before it is laid-into the chip. Or these days does it really mean "the dominant color of the inlay". This becomes of interest when discussing chips like the old Mapes chips and some of the early Christy & Jones chips where the inlay base is pretty obviously white but the white shows up just as a white ring about the printed inlay. Since the chip maker could make the white disappear if he wanted to (by printing the dominant color all the way to the edge of the inlay), it seems to me the color of these early chips' inlay is really "white". I don't think this practice is consistently followed in The Chip Rack, and certainly not by all collectors who mostly say the dominant color of the inlay is the inlay color.

Any comments from TCR authors (current or historic)? MichaelK?