Featured Gaming chip set

Anyone know if these are for a specific game or just general gambling needs? Made of bone it looks like. No clue what the sticker on bottom of case represents.

 

something like this ...
https://www.etsy.com/listing/140450...MIqajH6caAgQMVXszCBB36MAH8EAkYBCABEgJZqfD_BwE

 

Very much similar.

 

It's still not clear what game this is for?

 

they don't seem to be for any one specific game............. but card games seem most likely..

 

Possibly gambling chips as suggested in the link. The rectangular ones remind me of plaques you get in a casino. So maybe blackjack or roulette.

 

I've seen tokens and chips like these made of everything from bone to MoP.

As the others have said, I don't think they're for any specific game. You probably divvied them up according to whatever game you happened to be playing at the time, and needed tokens/chips for.

 

Those are antique Native American gaming chips from the 1960s. They should work in 5s 10s and 100s or something of that order. The reason they are unmarked is because these were sold as gifts at random casinos. We saw these all the time growing up in Wisconsin near the res.

 

hummmmmm, from the Milwaukee Independent .....


in 1949 the federal government banned slot machines and other forms of gambling on reservations.

Over the course of the next couple decades, Wisconsin eased its gambling laws, first allowing raffles and then low-stakes bingo for non-profit religious or charitable purposes. Seeing an opportunity, two members of the Oneida Nation, Sandra Ninham and Alma Webster, decided in 1976 to offer high-stakes bingo on their reservation. State authorities soon raided the bingo hall and attempted to shut it down, though. The Oneida Nation took the state to court and in 1981 won, with the judge citing Worcester v. Georgia, the 1832 U.S. Supreme Court case establishing tribal sovereignty.

By the 1980s, Native American communities around the country were offering various forms of gambling, and conflicts centering on their legality ballooned. This prompted Congress to pass the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in 1988, which once and for all established the legality of tribal casinos and gambling operations. This federal law was passed soon after Wisconsin relaxed its own gambling laws even further, altering Act IV, Section 24 to allow a statewide lottery and parimutuel betting. But casinos remained illegal in the state.

 

If they are from the 1960s they won't be antique for another 40 or so years

 

right, that's what I said. They are native american gaming chips. They are unmarked because it was illegal at the time.

 

Hmm interesting thought and examples that have popped up. This set has long since parted from me. I wish I still had better photos of the case. I would have bet a considerable amount that the case and boxes within were significantly older than the 1960’s. The box was lined with beautiful fabric, probably silk. Everything about it suggested to me at least a few decades earlier than the 60’s if not into the late 19th. I can’t say for sure though. I don’t doubt that Birdseye saw similar chips all the time in the 60’s but maybe my particular set was older. They are simple chips and it would make sense the style saw use over a wide period.

 

Given the fountain pen used on the sticker, the box is likely to be pre-1960s.

Debora

 

I’d say. It also had a European feel to the whole presentation. Could have been American but felt European. There was a little scene painted on top of each wooden box if I recall correctly. For all I know the chips started life in galaxy far, far away from the packaging. Pretty hard to say with certainty that they were intended to be together but it looked right.