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hi, it looks like a revamped love meter by exhibit supply

It's a conversion. They were converted from the boring stocks and shares. I have seen other variations - I have one featuring car manufacturers. By the way, I think I was the under-bidder on yours on ebay.

Was that the machine in Doncaster?
Fourfive's machine looks like it was made after the New Tote and before the black one.

regret selling-- bryans rockets for £300, it was a long time ago
cricketer, matthewson shooter/gripper, mills dewey etc. a pity you cant keep everything

I think these are great machines, vastly underrated. Incidentally they are made by BMR: Brecknell, Munro and Rogers (BDR came later- the Munro part becoming Dolman). This is a version I have not seen before.

This has a Pace lookalike jackpot, so it's a Mills/Sega type mech with a Pace type jackpot made in Italy - very interesting . Does anybody know if they were made under licence or did they just copy bits of machines they thought would work?

These, I think, are made in Italy. I had one and the mech was the same as a Sega but marked "Made in Italy".
Astor, by-the-way, made a Hi Top lookalike with a Pace mech, also marked "Made in Italy".

jennings do have a coin return system but no button, sega also,it has a long tube from escalator to the coin tray to cope with reject coins but no reject button

prices have gone up

Hi, I think I saw one of these in the Carter 2006 sale. I remember seeing the ABT type castings on a strange case and assuming, wrongly it seems, it had been made up, so someone out there has another one.

i have one of the loreley shooters but is sadly lacking the gun, has anybody out there got a spare one or one i can copy,its a long shot ;)

I have had one of these so it's not unique. It's very well made, so I presume they intended to make a few of them. I think I put it in one of Steve's auctions. Don't know who made it though.

I seem to remember a similar one at one of Steve Hunt's auctions. Perhaps somebody might have taken a pic of it.

I have always assumed these are British, they certainly look it. They are not that rare - I have owned two in the past and I know where there are two more.

The payout casting looks like a bit of Bryans.

Hi Dave, I have not see the revamp 1928 Caille, has anyone any pics of one, as for the in the US, I have other observations: I am not aware of any made on 50c, it is 25 stops, it has the large payout cup, all the Ben Hurs I have seen have the half size one and 50 stops, the case is quarter cut oak, ...

Neither of these is made by Caille, they are English produced, probably by Clements in the 20/30s.

Does anybody out there know what the purpose of these were. The badge is the same as the one fitted to a 1960s Bell Fruit with a Churchill crown in a fitted case. Could they be a prize?

Hi Jerry, I have had one before. These are revamps on earlier Mills machines. If you look at the pictures, the mech is too early, probably out of a Poinsettia. Another clue is the wooden sides, they have been built up to accept new castings. Could have been done by Bollands or Firmans maybe.

Hi, I see everyone is avoiding this difficult question. I will stupidly try, it depends on a lot of factors - what's the condition like, is it restored, is it restored well, sympathetically, are all the parts original, is everything there, what coin is it on, have the payouts been altered, are the s...