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Slot Machines in Print (3 of 3) History, Appreciation and Identification |
Wenn Der Groschen Fällt... (When the Penny Drops) edited by C Kemp & U Gierlinger.
This well illustrated, quality tome, is out of print and hard to find. Published by the Deutsches Museum, it documents the history of all varieties of coin-operated machines. German text. Hardback, 383 pages. colour & b/w. Our Price: £95
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100 Ans de Machines a Sous by Jean Lemaitre.
Large, expensively produced quality book that does full-colour justice to a superb array of predominantly French machines (many truly exquisite) plus a few English, German and American games, pinballs and jukeboxes. One of the finest publications about vintage slot machines, by the leading French slot machine expert. A real eye-opener to anyone interested in wall machines. French text. Hardback, 175 pages, colour. Small print run in 1997 - now hard to find. Our Price: £40
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Trade Promotional and Advertising
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Ernst Holzweissig Nachf
Facsimile of splendid 1898 export catalogue from Leipzig, Germany of coin-operated fortune teller, shooter, grip test, dice shaker, photo booth, X-Ray machine, Kaleidoscope, guessing scales, guessing bank, diverse vendors, living pictures, singing birds, stereoscopes, automata, polyphons, orchestrions, automatic pianos and musical chairs, boxes, toys, clocks tankards, photo albums; plus numerous other extravagant instruments, great and small. Over 1000 illustrations (with strangled English text). Softback, 440 pages, b/w. Our Price: £30 |
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Reiner Pelzer and Co.
Facsimile German Slot Machine Distributors Catalogue 1900. Over 140 illustrations of amazingly elaborate and ornate coin-operated automata, fortune tellers, phonographs, polyphons, orchestrions, stereoscopes, mutoscopes, scales, vendors, skill games and a fearful X-Ray machine! Softback, 156 pages, b/w. Our Price: £28 |
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Waren Automaten
Eisenwerke Gaggenau Aktiengesellschaft. Facsimile
of German vending and weighing machine distributor. Beautiful elaborate
designs, circa 1900. Softback, 59 pages. b/w. |
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Auctions & Sales
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Münzautomaten
Auktion 1991
Catalogue of major German sale of 19/10/91 (Eppard
& Waue). Most of these machines came out of East Berlin, post-unification.
Excellent source of reference. 132 lots all illustrated with top quality
colour prints. Mainly European machines, with many interesting German
wall machines, chocolate vendors, together with French, British and
American pieces. Softback, 52 pages, all colour. |
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Münzautomaten Auktion 1992
Catalogue of major German sale of 31/10/92 (Eppard
& Waue). Most of these machines came out of East Berlin, post-unification.
Excellent source of reference. 155 lots all illustrated with top quality
colour prints. Mainly European machines, with many interesting German
wall machines, chocolate vendors, together with French, British and
American pieces. Softback, 52 pages, all colour. |
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Bernard Pansu Collection
Sold at Gallerie De Chartres, Chartres, Paris on
28/11/04, 300 lots, mostly beautiful French wall and floor-standing
machines, plus a number of British, German and American pieces. The
high quality photos make this an invaluable reference source. Softback,
62 pages, all colour. |
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Magazines
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Retro-Matic
French magazine covering all coin-operated antiques.
(No longer published). |
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