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by gameswat
Sun Nov 26, 2023 11:11 pm
Forum: Open Forum
Topic: MUTOSCOPE: A Tale of Two Companies
Replies: 10
Views: 2391

Re: Mutoscope Stand!

So first volume of two on the Mutoscope companies just published by Larry Bieza & the late Bob Klepner! 40 + years in the making... Awesome. !!YIPPEE!! https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CNZQ3LYK/ MUTOSCOPE: A Tale of Two Companies: Volume 1 American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, by Larry Bieza &am...
by gameswat
Tue Nov 21, 2023 5:59 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: British Mutoscope marquee art wanted
Replies: 5
Views: 2567

Re: British Mutoscope marquee art wanted

I imagine this was a generic card that had different names painted onto it along with a photo of that reels subject. After flattening the image and blowing up to scale I printed for re-drawing, and on close inspection everything is slightly wonky and out of line so most likely it is just a one off ...
by gameswat
Tue Nov 21, 2023 5:16 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: British Mutoscope marquee art wanted
Replies: 5
Views: 2567

Re: British Mutoscope marquee art wanted

This is another British Mutoscope card I've seen. Has the Crane label on the bottom so I guess was their own in house version. Would love to see a great photo or scan of this version too. |/XX\|
by gameswat
Tue Nov 21, 2023 4:52 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: British Mutoscope marquee art wanted
Replies: 5
Views: 2567

Re: British Mutoscope marquee art wanted

Certainly the same reel PM. That's an odd size marquee and frame I've never seen before. Great artwork but I imagine either specially made for this electric Muto or made up more recently?
by gameswat
Tue Nov 21, 2023 1:46 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: British Mutoscope marquee art wanted
Replies: 5
Views: 2567

British Mutoscope marquee art wanted

Maybe someone has this artwork? The reel is a UK produced version called Death Dive of a bicycle jump into a tiny pool, and so had a uniquely British card to go with it. I found this old arcade photograph with the artwork i need and while there is just enough there for me to work from, obviously a p...
by gameswat
Mon Nov 13, 2023 1:05 pm
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: Allwin identification
Replies: 10
Views: 1406

Re: Allwin identification

The plane in the original machine photo sure looks dodgy to me - appears hand cut. The line of the body and tail-fin is a little off, and the small inset tip at the tail-fin base is very lopsided. And looks like the rhd bottom wing tip is cut flat instead of round. As JC already stated, would be an ...
by gameswat
Thu Nov 09, 2023 3:55 pm
Forum: Auction Community
Topic: Saleroom roundups
Replies: 242
Views: 137472

Re: Saleroom roundups

$553 USD for a Bryans Hidden Treasure?? Blimey. The Yanks are blithering idiots. Someone stole this machine. J Peterson Crying in my beer, USA. !!CHEERS!! JP, when I was growing up the commonly used term for you good ol' boys when visiting Aust was "Seppo" ie: Yank = Septic Tank = Full of...
by gameswat
Mon Oct 30, 2023 11:39 am
Forum: Open Forum
Topic: Genco King Fish
Replies: 10
Views: 1117

Re: Genco King Fish

JC, if you look closely at the side view of the machine you'll notice the cabinet has a pronounced deeper front 1/3 of the cabinet, that no basic pinball has, which is needed to hold the payout mechanism And there is an added drawer below the front door, the drawers were usually pivoting in action t...
by gameswat
Fri Oct 27, 2023 3:25 pm
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: Smells a bit "Fishy"
Replies: 3
Views: 602

Re: Smells a bit "Fishy"

roger wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2023 2:35 pm I chalenged members to spot the item which drew my attention.
Mr. P. was the only respondent and confirmed my suspicions that the machine deserves close scrutiny.
Hey Roger, maybe if you put links to your dodgy auction finds you'll get more replies. Many of us aren't retired. :o
by gameswat
Fri Oct 27, 2023 3:12 pm
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: Caille / Clement & Whales Countertop disc machines
Replies: 160
Views: 87862

Re: Caille / Clement & Whales Countertop disc machines

Hey PM, this reply from Dick is actually in the Sept/Oct 1995 issue of Coin-Op Classics. After having just read through over 600 mags I'm getting them confused! And by the way, I spoke with Greg McLemore about the issues searching his International Arcade Museum e-magazine database. Turns out there ...
by gameswat
Thu Oct 26, 2023 6:11 pm
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: GIRLS and FLEAS
Replies: 27
Views: 8393

Re: GIRLS and FLEAS

Where they came up with that fanciful date is beyond me?! Ha, well in the same magazine interview, Marvin happily admits to being a bullshit artist and embellishing the stories to many of his machines and pieces! "I have a slot machine on display, just a normal machine. I put a story on the ma...
by gameswat
Thu Oct 26, 2023 3:32 pm
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: GIRLS and FLEAS
Replies: 27
Views: 8393

Re: GIRLS and FLEAS

Hey Roger, you wanted to know the location of this pictured machine. Since at least 1988 it has been in the ownership of Marvin's Marvelous Mechnical Museum and still on location there being operated. In a Spring 1988 The Coin Slot magazine interview with owner Marvin Yagoda, there is a photo of the...
by gameswat
Fri Oct 20, 2023 5:13 pm
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: Caille / Clement & Whales Countertop disc machines
Replies: 160
Views: 87862

Re: Streching the truth...

What did the undisputed authority on American slot machine history, Dick Bueschel, say about it? Nothing, as far as I can tell, neither in his many meticulously researched books, nor his magazine articles. Hey PM, Dick did mention these Brit Caille copies in several Questions to the editor pages in...
by gameswat
Fri Oct 20, 2023 3:20 pm
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: Caille / Clement & Whales Countertop disc machines
Replies: 160
Views: 87862

Re: Caille / Clement & Whales Countertop disc machines

Great forensic research PM. One thing I will say about the Walter Chandler presentation plate on the double - it's atrocious! Absolutely amateurish work and there is no way in hell that anybody, let alone the Caille Company, would have ever commissioned that to be placed on a trophy they were handin...
by gameswat
Wed Oct 18, 2023 10:01 am
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Looking to confirm this French collector, circa 1991
Replies: 4
Views: 653

Re: Looking to confirm this French collector, circa 1991

Sorry Cait have never seen any videos taken at those expos.
by gameswat
Tue Oct 17, 2023 5:22 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Looking to confirm this French collector, circa 1991
Replies: 4
Views: 653

Re: Looking to confirm this French collector, circa 1991

I believe these pics were taken from a Nippon Television show that included Dick Bueschel, which was a search for Pachinko history. Dick spoke about the making of the tv show at the 1992 Pinball Expo, and his speech is written about in the Spring 1993 issue of The Coin Slot magazine. Sadly Dick only...
by gameswat
Fri Sep 29, 2023 11:46 am
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: Brit Export machine history, from "The Coin Slot"
Replies: 4
Views: 1140

Re: Brit Export machine history, from "The Coin Slot"

From: The Coin Slot magazine Winter 1992/93, Bill Whelan interview: I've purchased machines from outside the country. They've been brought in by other dealers. As far as foreign machines, I used to buy a lot that came in from England and re-coined them for the American market. At that time they were...
by gameswat
Tue Sep 19, 2023 12:14 am
Forum: Build a Slot Machine
Topic: Not an Allwin but...
Replies: 15
Views: 5333

Re: Not an Allwin but .....

I appreciate your method here, but back in the day they used a much easier way which was to fret cut the spiral from a board, then attach that to a solid backboard.
by gameswat
Sat Sep 16, 2023 7:26 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Philip Shefras Plentywin
Replies: 25
Views: 76443

Re: Philip Shefras Plentywin

Looks like silk screened art to me on to white card. Tell tale sign is the thick textured mesh pattern from the silk screen.
by gameswat
Mon Sep 11, 2023 3:36 pm
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: Australian Manufactured Coin Op Machines
Replies: 94
Views: 69968

Re: Australian Manufactured Coin Op Machines

I've never seen this unusual Nutt & Muddle "Jubilee Monarch" slot before. As seen in the November 1993 Loose Change magazine, Aristocrat article. The caption reads: "This Nutt & Muddle Jubilee Monarch is typical of the type of mechanical slot machines produced during the early...