Argee, those are licencing tags, and for each year they changed the design slightly, all early french machines I've had showed signs of them once being attached, though sadly usually missing. I made a mold of a couple and make my own using resin and alloy powder.

Umm, why exactly do you need to replace it? Looks great to me. Better to have a nice old plastic a little aged than modern repro of it. You keep saying you want to find the appropriate backflash, that's it. And having never seen another exactly like this makes your game stand out, so nobody will hav...

That would appear to be the artwork for it! Sometimes you'll find remnants of green felt glued underneath, indictating a later refurbishment. But by later 30's into 40's they were making them new with solid plastic backflashes like this.

Strike, like many British slot machines that have turned up in the USA this has been converted to suit your market most likely in the late 1970's or early 80's. At the time the market was booming and little information about these imports was available. Usually the conversions were done poorly just ...

All looks legit from the exterior photo. What do you think is shonky?

He's aged a lot while in office so I really doubt he'll have it in him to try again at 78 and push through to 82. Especially with a slew of legal cases awaiting him once out of office. My feeling is he'll start his own Fox style news channel, called Trump of course. That way he can preach his crazy ...

As Ivanka just reminded us, it's all there in the name JP......"American patRIOT".

I live in Australia and was born into the coin-op world since 1969, and have never seen a working hopper Aristocrat poker machine...... ever!!! As I tell all the customers that ask me to work on early electronic machines, imagine going to your local computer repairman and asking them to fix a circa ...

Here I was thinking I had greatest posts, the best posts, very very beautiful posts, in fact even the post office officials thought my posts were the biggliest and mostliest they'd ever seen.......

Not sure why I bother posting BP when nobody reads..... Example of pot metal welding repairs