I just learned hours ago that we have lost Patricia "Pat" Gresham -- a great woman and good friend. A funeral service is scheduled for tomorrow. Her official obituary: Patricia Gresham GRESHAM Patricia Anne (Pat) Of Westwood House, North Dalton and former proprietor of Penny Arcadia, the Ritz Cinema...

As mentioned above, Bob was 'one of the true gentlemen of our hobby'. He was always gracious, always helpful, always friendly, and always passionate about his interests. He clearly had a huge scholarly interest in the machines too. He was always happy to answer the phone when people called, and I wa...

An identical rare Avery scale ended up in the east coast of the United States and then was put on eBay maybe ten years ago? Since it was the only one I've ever seen I bid what I thought was a very strong number for it and I still lost the auction. It went to a European collector. The two mermaid cas...

This was a neat machine. When I saw it on eBay I figured it was something that would interest you. I've never seen anything else like it before. Thanks for posting pictures here too. I'm curious if any history comes out about it...

Yes, early, rare (I know of 2 of them), and valuable. Part of a set. Probably the least attractive machine in the set, but the rarest.

I would be very interested in it if it was for sale...

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Ya... I don't make it around too often. I'm not even on my own coin-op forums as much as I'd like (forums.arcade-museum.com). If I didn't run the site, I'd have more time to be social on it. I just decided to log on today since I made a few posts and was curious if anyone responded. Between work, ho...

Some of you know me, some don't. I run the International Arcade Museum and associated web sites. I'm also an avid collector of coin-op with many hundreds of machines. I have dozens of UK machines, mostly floor models, half of which came through our adoption of Penny Arcadia. We're always on the hunt...

This is not the typical case for an Ahrens execution. It looks sort of chopped down...

Of the four known cat fortune tellers, 3 of them look like they have real stuffed cats in them. The fourth one has a wax cat on them. The cat doesn't look as real, but most women really get freaked out by the stuffed cat machines. That's why we went with the one with the wax cat for our Penny Arcadi...

There are a few of these early wooden Mutoscopes around. I have 3 of them in the www.pennyarcadia.co.uk collection that I found in England and Australia. Besides mine I've seen a couple more. I've also seen one reproduction that was a tad rough. Originals come in at least two slightly different styl...