Jamieson's were surprisingly big on selling abroad and exhibited at several trade shows in the USA including Atlanta (just down the road from South Carolina ) they also made regular sales trips to New Jersey so their machines were quite well known in the US, perhaps they simply sold the design under...

I wish I'd seen that skittles machine, one of the cleverest machines made by Jamiesons - simple, deceiving and addictive. https://youtu.be/X6Oe3erPvPw Don't look for allwins on ebay expecting a bargain. I had a lady contact me through my website yesterday looking for an allwin for her husband for xm...

Is it just Sega that made the Hi-top upper castings without central the recess for the logo or did Mills also produce this type actually, it's pretty much the other way round, only the late "Bell-o-matic" Mills machines had the central logo insert I believe all the rest did not have it. But even th...

it always makes me laugh when I see Salter and Watling scales with hand rails....a little bit of pressure applied in the right way takes lbs of your weight and no dieting needed

Might be worth contacting Christopher Steele , he is certainly one of the most knowledgable people in the world when it comes to the history of penny scales,I don't know how good he is on Australian makes but id be surprised if he doesn't know something about the make, email him at americanpennyscal...

Certainly, no reason not to feature a gumball machine, they are clearly part of the slot machine genre. !THUMBS! I've worked on loads of gumball dispensers but never one of these, it looks rare. The photos don't give much away but from what we can see there should be a plate on top of the rotating g...

I have a bad back, it is complete and used to work fine..... just needs some TLC.. circa early 1950s

A couple of ornate ones National Scale Co Callie "George Washington"

We have seen some odd ones over the years, but I don't think we have seen one of these before.
The original pump could well be worth more on its own.

"We used to start at ten in the morning, sometimes nine, and then finish at about ten or eleven at night. Seven days a week. It could be three o'clock in the morning when we finished on the day we emptied the machines. The men were given only two ten-minute breaks - one at lunchtime, and another in...