From about 1910 onwards, Bell-Fruit-Gum became the standard jackpot symbol on one arm bandits. It does not refer to the British Bell Fruit Manufacturing Company.

Looks so much better than black paint.

Already an impressive before and after.

From page 258 of Arcade 1 (Bueschel & Gronowski): As successful as it was, the NOVELTY MERCHANTMAN was soon up for yet another improvement, the latter the idea of Claude R. Kirk, of California... Kirk quickly picked up on prior work by other Exhibit Supply engineers and designers to create a large h...

Welcome Jon!

jothebulb wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 13, 2019 2:17 pm

If I want to post images of the mechanism I could do with help with, which is the best place to put them on the forum?

Let's start a new topic.

It's a phenomenal museum - thank you for the great pictures. I wonder how such a fabulous collection came to be assembled in the Czech Republic. Presumably large amounts of public funding were involved. These are not random acquisitions, so clearly some real enthusiasts behind it with an eye for the...

Innovative floor-standing fortune tellers were John Brenner's forte, so it's not surprising he started this new genre. Evidently it fizzled out after a couple of years though. Were they too expensive or not very popular? Brenner tried harder than most to convince the punters that his machines were d...

Following Brigham's query about surviving robot fortune tellers (in the AMECO Catalogue topic ), here's a roundup of what's known. First we have the non-coin operated examples: robot-fortune-teller.jpg They used to have one of these in the Wonderland arcade in Southend. I spoke to the new owner abou...

This latest example which went unsold with a Buy-It-Now of £900 reflects Gameswat's comments about auction prices . The example Bryans Fan posted, which sold for £1350 at Carter's auction, 19th November 2000, was considered a new high for a Whales allwin, purchased, I believe, by the Whales family. ...

Here are the old photos of Baker/Hayward 'National Museum of Slot Machines' arcade