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Ruger Pen and Poker Chips
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 3:15 pm
by Marksman
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My memorabilia collection is finally getting started. Found the Ruger pen on flea bay. I love the colors of the chip set.
Re: Ruger Pen and Poker Chips
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 3:50 pm
by T.A. Workman
Great snag ! Is that the one from ebay a couple weeks ago ?
Terry
Re: Ruger Pen and Poker Chips
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 6:49 pm
by Marksman
T.A. Workman wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 3:50 pm
Great snag ! Is that the one from ebay a couple weeks ago ?
Terry
Terry,
Only the pen is from ebay, the poker chips are from a good friend. Mike
Re: Ruger Pen and Poker Chips
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 12:43 pm
by chet15
There weren't many sets of poker chips. I think they only went to distributors and other "friends" of the factory, about the 1992 to 1993 time period.
Chet15
Re: Ruger Pen and Poker Chips
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 6:16 pm
by Marksman
chet15 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 22, 2022 12:43 pm
There weren't many sets of poker chips. I think they only went to distributors and other "friends" of the factory, about the 1992 to 1993 time period.
Chet15
Good to know, is there an estimate on how many were made? Mike
Re: Ruger Pen and Poker Chips
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 7:08 am
by T.A. Workman
Around fifty sets were made I believe. The set on ebay a few weeks ago was BN no bids, fetched $1,800.00 +
Terry
Re: Ruger Pen and Poker Chips
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 8:21 pm
by rpm enterprises
Terry, I think about 150 sets were done. Just going by memory but I do remember the selling price originally being 350.00. I have a brochure on how to order them also from what I remember is the horse blanket hand bag was offered at the same time. I know one set of poker chips were made into key chains.
Re: Ruger Pen and Poker Chips
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 8:23 am
by T.A. Workman
Rick,
This is what I got when I made a quick google search, two poker chip dealers said 50 one dealer says 100, so two against one I took the majority number.
I dug out Chads memorabilia list, he shows the year 1990 poker chip set at 132 - 136 made that fits in with your number a lot better than mine.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ruger+p ... e&ie=UTF-8
I believe this is the 1st first Ruger Sports Wear Catalog they printed and contains the info you provided. It was included when I bought my bag.
Terry
Re: Ruger Pen and Poker Chips
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 9:08 am
by rpm enterprises
Terry that is the catalog I was referring to.
Re: Ruger Pen and Poker Chips
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 9:26 am
by contender
Yep,, that's the catalog. It was one of the first,, if not the first "accessory" catalogs they printed. I think it dates to 1996. That's what I have in my notes with my poker chip set.