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lepingouinmecanique wrote:It looks like you had the choice: model A (token) or model B (coin)

Hi lepingouinmecanique, do you know the date of this Allwin Deluxe information sheet?

This is a fascinating video of a 1955 clown delivering four balls per play and a really off-putting swinging clown!



Interesting that after 50 years of development the ball lift mech was still operating the same principal.

swaledaleslots wrote:I've found a very small picture of the right machine. Not sure what it actually is though

This allwin looks like it's from the same stable - but no idea of manufacturer.

I don't think William Bryan would produce such a crude mech for channelling the balls, especially when they are channelled into a sophisticated moulding block that allows for 1-2-3 payouts to be made - bearing in mind that this altered machine only pays out on the top and bottom rows. You can also s...

Couldn't agree more BP, I remember only about 2 years ago I saw a Cascade in a 'junk shop' I did look at it but walked away: front paintwork was in a bad state and the shop wanted £450 !!!!

but, the first "airship catcher" (Zeppelin, Parseval) were working with the coin you put in, so you could not convert them into a clown catcher, as they are working with a ball Interesting thread, and some interesting looking machines. So the early Airship catchers having the coin as proj...

Erbü Wunder Erwin Büttner, Oberstdorf, 1950

Best video of a wall machine I have seen

So how big a pile is £1000 worth of 1p/2p and would I get charged freight on the ferry? As one who has more than a passing interest in Numismatics, I think I can help you with your query BP. A 1p coin weighs approx 3.6g and a 2p coin approx 7.2g, so if my maths is correct 100,000 1p coins or 50,000...

Thanks for that Bob, no didn't think I would see any again.

However, the whole series of 'recent' events has been interesting and has certainly answered questions that have been posted on this forum about ownership - all is revealed in MMM

Good news, I have finally got back one of my stolen machines, the Clown catcher.
I have written an article for the MMM and there are some interesting turn of events so keep a look out for it when Jerry has space to print it.

Mr Pennymachines wrote:the category has been inactive for a couple of years

Until now
............read on under 'stolen machines, British collection'

I see that this Category seems to have gone missing, or has it been moved under another category?

Nice work Stuart.

Put in a bid for it BP, when you get Andy's Middlehurst Coronet it will look very nice sat on that.

That is one lovely little machine Mr BP, nice job. Strange that Mills should call a gambling machine 'Puritan' and to also put images of them on the side, especially when the Puritans were totally against gambling and alcohol. But maybe that was Mills' intent, thus trying to fool the authorities tha...

"Caesars Palace" (no apostrophe) could be registered as a trade mark, whereas "Caesar's Palace" (with apostrophe) could not I have been given to understand that you can not register a 'name' as a trade mark, I seem to recall a few years ago that an 'Elvis Pressley' shop opened s...

Anyone seen these:

Bollands Executioner: 300696691633 at £5.5K

Laughing Sailor: 290575555316 at £5.5K

Laughing Policeman: 300566295779 at £5K

Seems rather pricey to me, good luck if they can get it.

What condition is the new elevenses in treefrog, is it a complete rebuild or just a cosmetic job.

this being the most popular of the Bryans machines with over 11,000 sold Interesting prices and analogy treefrog but do not think that Bryans manufactured 11,000 Elevenses. I understand that Bryans numbering started at 101 and around 4500 Bryans machines in total were produced over their whole rang...

Now THAT is a very nice looking machine Jingle

Very nice machine there Jingle, quite similar to the 'Digger' by BMCo but the chrome plate on the Digger had slightly different shapes punched out. Perhaps it was made as a demonstrator by BMCo, obviously would not be in an arcade with no lock. If it were mine I would personally leave it on half pen...