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You can never be 100% sure, but I would say it was one of Oliver Whales re-manufactured machines Well, as I said, I'm 90% sure it's a Shefras product, having done some research recently into their output (to be submitted to MMM when I get around to it). The example below is atypical because it lack...

Hi Scottie,
I believe the Double Your Win was made by Morris Shefras's company, the Amusement Machine Mart sometime in the late 1950s. I've seen a few and owned one, but never figured out how you double your win. Is there a feature on yours which allows the player to achieve this?

Pennyforyourthoughts has offered to post me a disc with a scan of the plans which I'll reduce to a manageable file size and upload to resources (by kind permission of Scratchbuilt). This may take a few weeks...

Happy New Year Lora and let me be the first to congratulate you on your 100th birthday! (In case I'm not around to say it on the day.)

I've seen pic's of one in a book, but never actually seen a machine with the Peters name casting on it. Nor have I. Thanks to that excellent little Shire Album publication, Automatic Vending Machines by Colin Emmins we have some great pictures of once common but now very rare machines, including th...

Your PennyMachines 2010 Christmas treat: I just purchased these two 4th March 1911 Agreements between the British Automatics Company, Limited and the Midland and North East Railway Companies regarding Automatic Sweetmeats (Nestlé's & Peters' milk chocolate, cigarettes & matches) and Weighing...

For good measure, here's the German machine in the Gauselmann collection.

Hi caytonbay, welcome to the forum. I've split your post from the Sega Continental Artwork thread because your query is mech. related. If you want a reply from our resident bandit experts (whose families are no doubt making unreasonable demands upon them this time of year), give some more informatio...

Hey Rivierakid,
The balls I supply are all new and shiny but, if you let me know the dimensions, I may have some old wrinkly ones in my pocket somewhere.
I do have some used/worn/dull ones which you can have for price of postage if they're suitable.

Should the peerless chancer Steve hunt
For one more preposterous stunt?
When no Bumper was found,
And the bailiffs came round,
His name and our cash took the brunt.

Sorry, that was a bit mean-spirited. The 'rhyme with Hunt' challenge led me astray. I wish him success with his new enterprise.

An impudent fella named Steve,
Four times every year sought reprieve,
Amidst elephant do,
Floggin' rockin' horse poo,
Or that's what he'd have us believe.

Spity Scouse haiku
Perfect English Gentlemen
Water off a duck.

Hey Gameswat - it just gets better and better. The scale obviously looks a lot heavier than it is, and those 12" discs are a real bonus. Vinyl Carvers UK record cutting service will master a 10" record for £24 and a 12" for £32 (vinyl, not shellac). Can't bear to look at Jingle's pict...

Full sale results (with pictures) now in the Arena. Sorry about the delay.
Also the recent Knowle & New York Bonhams slot machine results (with pictures).

You lucky man Gameswat! I've always been fascinated by Speak Your Weight scales and although they're such a prominent part of coin-op folklore, they're exceedingly rare. I'm only aware of two British makers: British Automatic Company Ltd. and Charles Ahrens . I know of a couple of Ahrens scales but ...

Early version Payramid: Height (base to top of shoulder) 28" Depth (from front to back of base) 10" Depth (from front to back of top) 6" Width (from left to right side of base) 15 1/4" Ball bearings 1/2" diameter As Jerry mentioned, the castings were gun metal. If you want t...

1. Does anyone know the maker of this machine and when it was made? I'd forgotten, until Jerry mentioned it, that we'd pinned down Mini-Pusher , Aladdin's Lamp and Davey Jones' Locker to CAM Automatics . I think this was a result of Slotalot's research into the other CAM games - the little light-fl...

Soon as "the powers that be" (and time) allows, I'll get to it. Meantime some more auction pics courtesy the Grabber:

I think I would agree with Jingle's valuation, although I was the reckless buyer of the one that went for £625. The vendor took pity on me for braving the snow to collect and let me have it for £620. Still pricey compared to the second one, but as Jingle says, that's how it goes. I wait ages for a s...