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slotalot wrote:Yes it is a Dennison, the cotton spindle is a dead give-away

Stuart, did you have a past relative living at 221B Baker Street

What was the size of the monster ball in Steer-a-Ball?

JC wrote:I can confirm that Nostalgic Machines is no longer trading

I thought that was the case Jerry, is N.C. ok and still interested in the slotty world?

Bloody Hell !!

So how much are you going to bid John?

or are you selling !!

I see there is a repro Mills Golden Nugget on ebay for just under £800. The guy has also put a link to YouTube showing a video of it. He states " Ebay rules regarding sales of this type of device: This machine is exempt in compliance with rule 1: 1) Gaming machines, regardless of age, that cann...

Badpenny wrote:for a while was worried I'd end up approaching it a second time, and maybe even see myself photographing it!

BP - too much drink me thinks, 'All Directions' happens to be an anagram of Cider Stallion !!

We have lost the top expert in the country on German machines My sympathies to his family, I did not know Harold, but would have been very interested in meeting him and listening to his knowledge of these machines, very sad. It's an inevitable part of life and just reinforces what I have thought fo...

Nice refurb project, did you win it treefrog?

Tree-frog wrote:One of the best honest sellers I have seen selling stuff from this forum were Malcmals machines

What name does he sell under? It's always useful to know of an honest seller on ebay.

Could be interesting, there are old fashioned 'type set' printers out there who would be able to print from this, but as the plate is the background and outline of the fruits and numbers, this would only be in the background colour, usually black I think. The printed image could then be scanned into...

Interesting, hit the clown in his face with a penny and win a cig, if the penny hits him below the belt you have lost, and the clown is already holding his goolies!

So guys, over to you for identification and probable ages. I would guess early to mid 50s for the iss meter but a bit earlier for the personality, at around mid-late 30s with its hint of Art Deco style, but I could be completely wrong (I'm used to that at home). As for the Cupids Arrow - well, Cupi...

freddykrueger wrote:Thanks - I will take a look. I think I am also going to subscribe to mechanical memories magazine as well.....

And you will not regret it, sign up today my boy, it's worth every penny.

doofus wrote:That brings back great memories. I played that monkey race game many times at Blackpool in the 1950s. It's one I'd give my eye teeth to own.

If you visit Clive's arcade on the end of Southport pier you can still play an original monkey race game (or you could 2 years ago when I was there).

pennymachines wrote:These were built by Ray (the rock cake) of Rhyl, from a load of unused cases he purchased from Parkers. (I know, because I supplied the coin cups). He made a very good job of them

The later Parker cases is one of my favourite allwin cases, any idea when these were made Mr pennymachines?

Thanks for the info coppinpr, interesting to see how a practical invention such as the escalator can turn into a piece of decoration as in the Rol A Top - very nice machine.

I don't have any bandits but often seen many references to an 'escalator' but what does it actually do?
am I right in thinking that the early bandits such as poinsettas did not have them.

From what I can see from the pics, the coin payout on a couple of those machines look decidedly BMco to me.

coppinpr wrote: hence if you put slugs in you got slugs out when you won

BMco also had a neat payout method on their automatic allwins. If you win, it pays out the coin that you just put in, so junk in, junk out. Lovely mechanism, quite different to the standard allwin mech and ingeniously designed.

Hi Andy, glad to see you are an avid browser of this site.

Some nice machines you have there, any chance of posting some pics for us all to view?