DEAN PORTER
Northern Nevada
Brass Core Collection
Make Your Best Offers
on these
Rare, Unique and Historical Chips

I am offering approximately 130 Brass Core Chips that are ALL from the collection formerly owned by Dean Porter of Golden, Colorado. These chips are from eight Casinos located in the Lake Tahoe area and other Northern Nevada towns. The chips are from the Crystal Bay Club, Harrah’s, Harvey’s and the Hyatt Regency in Lake Tahoe, John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Spark’s, Reno Ramada in Reno, Ranch House in Wells and the Silver Smith in Wendover.
Here are the Rules and Regulations

1. You can make offers on individual chips, groups of chips by denomination, all the chips from a single Casino, etc. or even the entire group of chips. PLEASE MAKE REASONABLE OFFERS - I WILL NOT NO ACCEPT LOW BALL OR FRIVILOUS OFFERS.

2. You may make or increase your offers at any time up until 12:00 noon on Saturday June 19, 2021.

3. I reserve the right to Accept or Reject any and all offers at my sole discretion.

4. Items that I accept offers on can be paid for and picked up on Saturday June 19, 2021 around 2:00 pm.

5. If you make an offer that I accept and you are not present on Saturday June 19, 2021 to pay for and pick up your chips – I will contact you and make arrangements to receive payment and to deliver the chips to you.

6. Payments must be made in cash or by check unless other arrangements for payment have been made.

I will make the final decision on any and all questions that may arise concerning this offering of Brass Core chips.

Special Disclaimer and Information

Some of the chips offered here may be “samples” and or “prototypes” which may NOT have actually been in play at the various Casinos. There was an investigation into a dispute about how a few of these chips were produced, marketed and presented for sale about 20 years ago. This information is well documented in the CCA records. Former Club Member Mel Jung was expelled from the CCGTCC as a result of a complaint lodged by Dean Porter over this dispute.

Dean Porter’s notes and comments about these chips are attached to almost all of the chips being offered here. You can read the cards that are presented here. These notes also contain information on when and from whom the chips were originally purchased. There is also a code that tells what Dean paid for the various chips, but I have not been able to figure the code out.

These chips are being offered as I had purchased them, and I do not guarantee when or how all of these chips were made or used.

I have looked at the chips as carefully as I can, and I believe the vast majority of these chips were produced for and used on the tables at the various Casinos or as samples for Casino approval.

By a strange twist of fate, 25 years ago in 1996 on a trip to Northern Nevada for my 50th birthday I witnessed the purchase of many of the $100 and $500 chips in this collection. A fellow collector who was with me on the trip purchased these high value chips from several casinos, and later sold them to Dean Porter. Little did I know I would end up acquiring these exact same chips from Dean Porter’s estate !!

I further believe that these chips have a significant historical value to our Hobby which gives them an added importance and value.

Many of these chips are “one of a kind” and worthy of being in the most advanced collections.

The “provenance” of these chips being from the Dean Porter Collection also adds additional value to these chips

You will have to decide for yourself if you want to include these very unique and special chips in your collection. Many of these chips have not been offered to collectors in well over 20 years and you may not see them offered again for many, many years.

Take care,
Jerry