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arrgee wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 2:04 pm can't quite make out what the text is below the reserve ball window though?

Just Patent number info on every one I've seen. Look up Seven Mysteries thread on here for many photos.

All I have in mine Dan.

The wire appears to be there as a spring to return the button that was once in the ferrule. Considering the location then would seem to be a reject button or somehow associated to coin entry?

Dave, so your machine is smaller than normal then? Needs something for scale.

treefrog wrote: ↑Fri Apr 02, 2021 7:27 am to even make a quality case to carry it in.

In fact Tree these type cases are the cheapest imaginable, just pressed cardboard with faux leather graining.

Awesome job Fruitbowl! And thanks for sharing pics. Hope to see the mech next.........maybe based on one of the other Patents out there...? Note to Gameswat: Here is your next project. Art Deco....it has your name all over it. I have far too many surviving machine projects JP. Someone once tried to ...

Yes, my mistake, been over 20 years since I restored mine and hundreds of other projects have come and gone since so things get easily confused.

The Oliver Whales Allwin looks to be in a Stevenson and Lovett case. Those metal corner pieces are also on my Conveyor and Super Steeraball. The cases on my Oliver Whales are oak and so is my Conveyor. I've owned quite a few allwins with those S&L style corner pieces, but they were all plated b...

I've had one Conveyor in a solid oak case, and two that were mixed, with same oak outer and probably mahogany doors.

Re: What is your dream machine?

pennymachines wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 3:27 pm No, I think they're also oak. The only mahogany cased games that come to mind are pre WW1, like WH Ell's counter-top games.

Don't forget that most of the 1950s Modern Enterprises automatons like Jolly Jack were in mahogany.