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I think you will find most vendors are open fronted on all makes of early machines. That was in fact the object - you were pretending to be vending a product, not running a gambling machine.

Funny old topic this one, as there are probably hundreds of machines that could be called rare, but I have always had an appeal to quirky and rare and especially associated with machines used in the U.K. (erm and Australia )

I was digging through some old pictures I captured of sold machines I used to track in the days when selling on eBay was possible, and the below machine really appealed to me, on old penny, based on a good, old machine with a nice British twist with a football theme. An early Jennings Dutch boy on penny with football reel strips. Never seen another and it looked that part... I should have bought it. I wonder if it ended up getting stripped, polished and having replacement strips.

I made replacement reel strips for this (or one like it) for a collector a couple of years ago. (I thought I still had them on file but might have lost them in a computer crash last year so can't post, a pity). As Tom says, really unusual set up, the original strips had the Samson (London) maker's name on them.

Well if it was the same machine, the strips looked great and nicely aged, case in point if the same.

No, these were gone. I had trouble identifying some of the artwork in fact.

I own that machine. Unfortunately someone had started to strip it. I left it for years as I liked it as it was. Then had room for it in the arcade so did strip the rest of the paint off. Then had a new reward card made. Obviously I left the original strips on as they are amazing tinplate strips dated 1924. Never seen any others.

Beautiful machine, it would definitely make my top shelf display.

Anybody seen one of these before. Jennings Victoria with 1d/50c escalator.

Peacock and jackpot Victoria... Peacock is in Australian museum with poker strips.

The two you have pictured are not particularly rare. It was the Victoria C (I think it's a C) with escalator I thought was rare. The escalator is quite different to the normal chain driven affair.

Dave we can't see the escalator.

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