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by jonesthegarage
Sat Dec 03, 2016 5:44 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Duomat penny slot machine
Replies: 62
Views: 20694

Re: Duomat penny slot machine

This is the ebay listing for this particular machine so you can see the pics of the front and case. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/penny-slot-machine-DUO-MAT-roulette-game-antique-mechanical-vintage-penny-slot-/322347400372?hash=item4b0d66fcb4%3Ag%3A4BMAAOSw5cNYQErE&nma=true&si=IYkrqafPw3alZxkqt2...
by jonesthegarage
Mon Nov 21, 2016 7:03 am
Forum: Justice Scrutton's Tipple
Topic: Feeling old?
Replies: 3
Views: 4719

Feeling old?

in the description of a pinball machine on ebay

"I have not touched the cabinet and this remains 'commiserate with age'."
by jonesthegarage
Mon Nov 21, 2016 6:38 am
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Cigarette vending machine info needed
Replies: 7
Views: 3579

Re: Cigarette vending machine info needed

Soren Wistoft, Danish company, and I'd bet my boots it started life as a vendor for Aspro or something similar. Nice job though Widget.

p.s. are you any relation to Bridget the Midget, the Queen of the blues?
by jonesthegarage
Thu Nov 17, 2016 3:24 pm
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: Bandit Stand
Replies: 6
Views: 3758

Re: Bandit Stand

40 odd years ago the Design Manager where I worked walked past a drawing in progress that showed for scale, a man stood by a large industrial boiler. His only comment to the Design Engineer was "I hope that man is to British Standard, 5 foot 9 and right handed". I have never bothered to fi...
by jonesthegarage
Fri Nov 04, 2016 3:15 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Gallopers - Carousel
Replies: 10
Views: 6202

Re: Gallopers - Carousel

I have just checked some old photos of my kids on a carousel in the Shelburne Musuem Vermont and that is definitely going anti clockwise, but more importantly (to me anyway) why in my family are Gallopers referred to as "bobby horses"?
by jonesthegarage
Fri Nov 04, 2016 9:39 am
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: British Treasure American Gold Mills for sale ebay.com
Replies: 3
Views: 3172

Re: British Treasure American Gold Mills for sale ebay.com

I forced myself to watch this show as I'd seen a trailer that featured a) slots and b) my home town. What a load of crap. Are all the programmes of this genre that bad? So a fella who is supposedly an expert says his 100% complete, original and fully working Space Invaders machine is better than the...
by jonesthegarage
Thu Sep 01, 2016 4:02 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Official Historian?
Replies: 20
Views: 7955

Re: Official Historian?

........... in the very long term I believe that current technology cannot be relied upon to allow indefinite access when compared with the printed word, which has and will continue to last for hundreds of years. This was brought home to me a while ago when I tried to open a 20 year old CAD drawing...
by jonesthegarage
Thu Aug 25, 2016 11:00 am
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Grand Slam
Replies: 23
Views: 7140

Re: Grand slam

Definitely based on bridge then although I don't believe the term "book" features in the actual game the term "finesse" does. It is not a game I know or have any desire to learn so can't help you any more than that. As coppinpr says, it does look overly complicated for what it is...
by jonesthegarage
Thu Aug 25, 2016 8:01 am
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Grand Slam
Replies: 23
Views: 7140

Re: Grand slam

I can't make out the words from your photo but it is almost certainly based on the card game "Bridge". Post a close up of the words if you can.
by jonesthegarage
Sat Aug 13, 2016 7:54 am
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: Brenco Heads n' Tails identified
Replies: 2
Views: 2529

Brenco Heads n' Tails identified

Sorry about picture but it's all I could copy from eBay search page as the listing itself had been removed.

This looks to be a bit different although perhaps way too late for some of you. Any info on how it worked?

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by jonesthegarage
Fri Aug 05, 2016 4:51 am
Forum: Auction Community
Topic: Just like buses
Replies: 6
Views: 3114

Re: Just like buses

I think if the Perfecta had been an original made for the UK market they would have found a more elegant solution than the customary enlargement of the coin slot. These are Germans we're talking about, they would surely have manufactured a specific "1d" coin entry.
by jonesthegarage
Mon Jul 11, 2016 7:17 am
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: Revamped Beromat-type bandits
Replies: 197
Views: 126893

Re: What's this?

They show up as "Viscount", "Duchess" and "Princess" and possibly other regal or non-aristocratic names. I think they are re-cased Gunter Wulff Beromat type mechanisms with the numbers replace by fruits but I could be wrong. When the German machines were converted or re...
by jonesthegarage
Tue May 24, 2016 10:43 am
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: what did they make?
Replies: 4
Views: 2363

Re: what did they make?

Also interesting that that simple address was enough to get delivered to the right person half way across the USA Chas Becker Saloon Dayton O I don't know if this is urban myth or not but I was once told an envelope addressed as follows was duly delivered quite promptly to the correct recipient WOO...
by jonesthegarage
Tue May 24, 2016 6:20 am
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: what did they make?
Replies: 4
Views: 2363

Re: what did they make?

my jaunt around the world of google with my morning coffee has (not surprisingly) brought nothing firm :dammit: but.................. this prestamped envelope design is U294 and was first issued in 1887 Casper Becker (possibly no relation at all!) started the Becker Brewing Co in Dayton Ohio in 1891...
by jonesthegarage
Sun May 22, 2016 2:31 pm
Forum: Justice Scrutton's Tipple
Topic: now just looking for the right girl to ask round for dinner
Replies: 7
Views: 5022

Re: now just looking for the right girl to ask round for dinner

soup for sluts?

I assume it's a tart for dessert.
by jonesthegarage
Fri May 20, 2016 9:26 am
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: Bally Bingo Pinball Simulators
Replies: 6
Views: 6001

Bally Bingo Pinball Simulators

I fell into the world of slots when I retired and started looking for a Bally Bingo pinball and anyone who has experience moving one of these machines will know that had they been around in ancient times then Hercules would have had 13 labours not 12. Anyway thanks to some sterling effort by an enth...
by jonesthegarage
Sun May 15, 2016 5:59 am
Forum: Open Forum
Topic: Bell-Fruit Gum Company: Fact or Fiction?
Replies: 33
Views: 31637

Re: Bell-Fruit Gum Company: Fact or Fiction?

I've approached this from a slightly different angle given that Mills was based in Chicago and this was also the home of Zeno Gum (who were making gum for Wrigley before the latter eventually took them over). In my perfect world I imagined that I would discover a manufacturer whose early fruit flavo...
by jonesthegarage
Fri May 06, 2016 3:38 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Sega problems
Replies: 5
Views: 2665

Re: Sega problems

all fixed and good to go, thanks again BP.
by jonesthegarage
Thu May 05, 2016 8:24 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Sega problems
Replies: 5
Views: 2665

Re: Sega problems

Thanks BP, all good info. I'd managed to identify the problem with the bar/pin just wasn't sure how to remedy it.