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Having had time to read the text of the patent properly it does seem that Gameswat is right and The Convicts is a working model and not Matthewson's lost machine. I'm afraid I was sucked in by the similarity to the appearance of the front of the working model and the drawing by Mathewson's step gran...

Thanks Mr Pennymachines for the patent. Perhaps when Gameswat has read it in full he'll agree that it could well be the machine. From the photos it looks to me like The Convicts (which is one of the names that Matthewson considered giving it) is about the size and thickness of an Allwin/Wineasy. I d...

Way back on page 6 of this topic I contributed the following: The other is a much later patent, 196,650, 1922 “Improvements in Coin Operated Machines”. This is a comparatively simpler mechanism and cabinet than Matthewson’s other coin op machines in a wooden cabinet, for a game called “Police Statio...

Here's a picture of a Climbing Monkeys machine in Oz with what I imagine was its original artwork.

Looks like my previous posting suggesting its Love Test origins was a bit premature, as I had never seen an Oracle. It certainly does have the look of a Bradfort machine.

Looks like a conversion of a Bradfort Love Test to me. Here's a photo of one I had with what would probably been the original top part of my machine which had been converted to a single coin entry in the bottom half of the machine.

Australian "Tanners" might be expensive as they did have a silver content right to the end but the sixpenny coin was replaced by the 5 cent coin which is still in use to this day. It is regularly minted and is exactly the same size and thickness as the sixpenny coin but does not contain an...

A couple of Harper floor standing 4 column cigarette vending machines found their way to Australia. I don't know if any were operated here to vend cigarettes though, as I saw these for sale at antique dealers many years ago. I think that the antique dealers bought them in the UK to sell here in thei...

The Bousche scales had a lovely art deco design but the mechanism wasn’t so great and they weren’t very accurate. Consequently they were operated in New South Wales where the government weights and scales department checked scales in shops selling food etc., but not personal weighing machines. So Bo...

Here's a copy of the Shelspeshel Australian patent.

Another great job. Well done Gameswat.

On reading some of the material in Mr Pennymachines Pokies from Down under section I followed a link at the top of the Ainsworth section: Former Sil-Ora Dental Products factory - PDF This provides a link to a Sydney City Council PDF Document concerning the premises of the Ainsworth Aristocrat factor...

Post split & merged - Site Admin. I finally got around to looking at the material that Mr Pennymachines has put together on Australian pokies (see links above). It's an absolutely fantastic collection of material and includes much that I had never seen before and illustrations of and informatio...

I've found some much better photos that I had of the Magic Ball machine so here they are.

Thanks Bryans fan. I've got a copy of this print among my collection of peepshow viewer prints. Precinema has been one of my interests for a very long time. With the Mutoscope my long time interests in cinema and pre-cinema history and coin op come together. The peepshow in the illustration does loo...

Thanks to Sweetmeats and Bryans Fan for their efforts. And I have now managed to search Australian patents back to Federation in Australia (1901) without success for a coin op machine by McNeil??? US seems unlikely but who knows?

Thanks Treefrog and Gameswat. I recognised the couple and other machines from almost forty years ago and whilst they weren't in the best of shape then, they certainly haven't traveled well since.

treefrog wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:24 am Another item the same seller in Australia has posted

Posted where???

I've just heard from my friend in Queensland regarding the Billiardette machine. He tells me that all it says on the machine is "Billiardettes" and McNeil's patent. So it doesn't look as though it could be French but could be British, American or Australian. Mr Pennymachines states that he...

Interesting to see what my Love Test would have looked like originally before they converted it to one coin entry etc. Here's a photo of the Original Bradfort Gypsy mechanical fortune-teller with a the same coin entry as on the Love Test. I used this machine to copy the graphics for my electro mecha...