Certainly a rare and interesting game, appears you have player control over the fingers to change scoring hole shots using the large knob on the front, plus being early E/M. But with such a large backlog of projects I've almost stopped buying machines, unless something really unusual and this wouldn...

The Lights of London theme certainly would not have been sold that way in the US, so I thought possibly a US machine with new local casting added? But I couldn't place the trim or anything I'd seen like it. Was just conversing with a specialist early pin collector in the US about something else so a...

pennymachines wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 28, 2020 7:18 pm

possibly for a payout?

Well Yes, the much lauded "JACKPOT" !

treefrog wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 28, 2020 9:32 am

I bet they wouldn’t have done that during the war years, never heard of recycling or need for raw materials

Except it did happen. https://www.londongardenstrust.org/feat ... lings3.htm

Great job Tree in doing only what was needed. I've always thought any machine should work properly first, cosmetics second. And that machine is fine looking as-is, some character, which in this day of so many over restored pieces is getting harder to find. I always say, look at US eBay, sinking unde...

I wonder why the European who made the 1.2 million offer didn't end up buying it at the auction? Maybe got bored and moved onto other things.....

This looks far too well engineered for just a toy surely!?

Well that was a let down, was expecting some kind of killer enamel signage or cast lettering to the front door.

Yes PM, Penny back, and pretty sure if you were to ask Sweetmeats you'll find he took your mystery photo 15 years ago. I thought I had more photos Moon but when I'm busy on other peoples machines I tend to forget to take them. Really is a killer piece that I'd have loved to own myself.

I found an article about John in the World's Fair magazine supplement dating 1974. And in it John states this Bomb Aimer to be by Ahrens. I was the one to find plywood covering the original front door and remove it, as seen in this photo when John owned it, why it was covered I have no idea?