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I also had another Bradfort machine, a Love Test. I obtained this in the largest bunch of coin op machines that I ever got which took years to consummate. This collection included a rare Bryan’s crane in a wooden cabinet, Arnolds English Execution, 2 early countertop Mutoscopes in wooden cabinets, b...

Indeed it was Bradfort. The bottom of the Gypsy Fortune teller machine states it is "Embodying Bradfort "Flick" and Bradspin units Regd.

I only had the door not the cabinet and don't remember what happened to that. It was a good door and I would have used it for something else as I don't have it any more. Same with the coin entry which is an interesting one. I agree with Mr Pennymachines making this a topic on its own and thank him a...

I learnt recently from a collector friend in Sydney that he had bought the Old Thro Ball machine at an auction sale of showman’s equipment in about 2001. The machine was in a much more deteriorated state than in the photo that I have published here which has a date stamp of 1988. However, although t...

Post split from Australian Manufactured Coin Op Machines - Site Admin. I learnt recently from a collector friend in Sydney that he had bought the Old Thro Ball machine at an auction sale of showman’s equipment in about 2001. The machine was in a much more deteriorated state than in the photo that I...

Wow Mr Pennymachines ! I've looked in the Museum and what you can do with a photo is fantastic.

Here's a photo of a machine I came across in New Zealand in 1993. This was a cast iron Cadbury's vending machine with vitreous enamel plates that had been found bricked in behind a wall in a shop in New Zealand some years before. I don't think the machine is still in New Zealand.

Sorry to be obtuse Mr Pennymachines, how do I get "bigger" images?
By the way, I thought I had posted them upright, not on their sides and could not find how to alter.

Today in researching something I am about to write dealing with one of my most unusual restorations, I came across a couple of answers to recent concerns. The book I was looking in is a German book called Automaten Welten. There I came across another maker of a figural match vending machine the exis...

I've taken some more photos of the monument cigarette machine. It's a hard machine to photograph.

Yes that does look like a stuffed around with Sweepstake Nurse.
Can someone please send me the link to the site where this appeared please as this is the first I've seen of it?

I had forgotten that the name of the chewing gum sold in these machines in New South Wales was YZ, but remembered only that it was not ACE. Here’s a photo of a rather battered Y-Z machine as used in New South Wales. YZ Chewing Gum 062.jpg In the very early years of my collecting a YZ chewing gum mac...

Just realised that I missed out including one machine that I had intended to include. It’s a British not Australian vending machine and one of the very few machines that I still have. It was a present from my wife who has supported my collecting in all the years that I have been engaged in this hobb...

I certainly didn't say that the match shaped vendor was in Australia. All I wrote was "Another great figural vendor is this match vendor. Its origin is unknown to me." Check it out above. I happened to have it on my computer and didn't know where I got from, possibly from Gameswat. It seem...

Just a few more Australian manufactured vending machines and some other machines of interest conclude this series of postings of mine. A very attractive Australian cigarette machine is the Sylent Wurker patented in 1923 by Person Jepson of Melbourne, 13647/23. This was originally in a Florentine Bro...

Here's a photo I couldn't find before showing an original Penny Patience complete with jackpot mechanism and tappers to propel the pennies rather than captive washers. Penny Patience.jpg Also a couple of photos showing an honour box that I bought at an auction here a couple of years ago and is one o...

Yep, that's the type. A google image search for lighter fuel coin op machines should bring some more examples.

I have quite clear memories of some vending machines from my childhood. One of these is of a little vending machine that my uncle had in his tobacconist’s shop which looked like a miniature petrol pump and sold a measured amount of lighter fuel to fill cigarette lighters. Although I tried to obtain ...

The Penny Patience cabinet was built by me but is an exact copy of a complete machine that I had. It is built of Australian KD hardwood just like the original. All I had was playfield, an original coin entry and the bottom door with the jackpot mechanism which has to be taken off the machine to acce...

Post moved, merged, split & edited from: Re: Australian Manufactured Coin Op Machines - Site Admin. For the Town Broker all I had was the front door with no hardware on the front and most, but not all of the mechanism, on the back. I got some help at the time with the mechanism, from a British ...