Yours is the 'standard', most common (but very nice) Jentzsch & Meerz version. I did read somewhere that dispensing coins from a machine required a special license in Germany and this is why tokens were used instead. Certainly tokens were more likely to be tolerated than cash payouts. I agree the BB...

Unusual mechanism. I imagined it to be coin return, not token payout. I haven't seen a Clown use anything other than steel balls. Could be the ball is too small? It looks so, against the ball separator. With regard to the door warp - perhaps a piece of wood as an end stop inside the top right corner...

Thanks for joining us Barry from Barry and for giving us your 'origin story'. When I was living in Cardiff I used to visit the more genteel and low-key Penarth, with its already quaint, old-fashioned amusement arcade. I took a couple of trips from the Victorian pier to Ilfracombe on the Waverley pad...

Looks like it was originally army surplus paint.

It looks superb. I love the colour. Well done!

I don't think I've seen that one before, but this heavily restored French clown, like yours, does not run on a ball, and requires the player to project the ball upwards with a trigger. I think it has had the ball added (notice the thin string, also added, for it to run on). clown-101.jpg This Britis...

I don't think it's British... German?

...which of course is the right answer. Not printed on plastic.

I think widget may have done one - his game's in the Museum, but it's not uploaded to Resources.

GM kindly wrote to me last week and mentioned that Maurice's health was deteriorating fast. Like GM, I also benefited in the early days from his knowledge and help. He and Pat, invariably together, made this hobby friendly and fun. When they swapped Northampton for the sun and sandy beaches of Cypru...