A few days before the convention Tom Henderson posted about the late Everett Sorrells collection being made available (except for the MS illegal club chips that Tom bought). Everett was known as one of the biggest MS riverboat collectors and frequently outbid me on better chips. Everetts brothers not want to break up the collection so there was no cherry picking. And he had a lot of stuff. In fact the chip collection spread out through most of a good sized bedroom. I went there the day after I returned from the convention and was amazed at what he had - at least as far a volume was concerned. The biggest problem was that most of it was not organized any any manner. I would look thru a pile of chips and find, in order, a roulette, MS chip, slot card, roulette, NCV, personal chip, NV chip, MT chip, etc. I spent about 5 hours going thru everything except for two large tubs before I ran out of time and energy. I knew how much they wanted and made them an offer they couldn't refuse. And - ULP!! - I bought it all. There were 20 or so binders, 30 coin boxes of chips, the two big tubs which had all sorts of stuff in them and lots of other boxes filled with chips, tokens and slot cards. There also were lots of the sets of MS tokens(Elvis, etc), matchbooks and baseball chips. I even got two generic pieces of slot glass. I estimated by weight and number of boxes that there are about 6000 chips and several thousand slot tokens of all denominations. I found chips from 1 cent to $10,000. I was wondering if Everett also bought part of Keith Galle's collection (another big riverbot clooector) since it had a lot of personal stuff from Keith in the boxes. There are hundreds of chips from the west coast that I am not interested in and plan to sell.

Here are some pictures of the collection in various stages of my coordinating it. I have gone thru every chip at least three times now to get them sorted so they make some sense. The first time was just to pull out all of the slot tokens. Then I had to sort everything by type - foreign, slot cards, illegals, NCV, more tokens, dice, etc. Then I sorted by state. That all took about two weeks to do. I will be selling off chips I do not need or duplicates when I can figure out where to start. BTW - there also was another full bedroom that was just filled floor to ceiling with baseball cards. Let me know if you are interested in them and I can put you in touch with the heirs.