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- Fri Jan 05, 2024 7:15 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: MUTOSCOPE: A Tale of Two Companies
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3059
Re: Mutoscope Stand!
Hey Scorpa, yes that's correct. Larry jumped the gun slightly thinking he was going with Amazon, or an affiliated printer, he said the final proof copy by them was under par. So he just got the new proof from Lulu and loves it. Though I've been told the overseas shipping is much higher than Amazon, ...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 2:06 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: A really Sad Story
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1771
Re: A really Sad Story
Very sad to hear about Ken. I heard from several people that he'd been succumbing to alzheimer's or the like for the last 5 years. Met him for the first time 30 years ago and was able to visit his place a handful of times over the years and got to spend hours looking at his amazing collection and ta...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 11:11 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: MUTOSCOPE: A Tale of Two Companies
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3059
Re: Mutoscope Stand!
So first volume of two on the Mutoscope companies just published by Larry Bieza & the late Bob Klepner! 40 + years in the making... Awesome. !!YIPPEE!! https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CNZQ3LYK/ MUTOSCOPE: A Tale of Two Companies: Volume 1 American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, by Larry Bieza &am...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 5:59 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: British Mutoscope marquee art wanted
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3216
Re: British Mutoscope marquee art wanted
I imagine this was a generic card that had different names painted onto it along with a photo of that reels subject. After flattening the image and blowing up to scale I printed for re-drawing, and on close inspection everything is slightly wonky and out of line so most likely it is just a one off ...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 5:16 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: British Mutoscope marquee art wanted
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3216
Re: British Mutoscope marquee art wanted
This is another British Mutoscope card I've seen. Has the Crane label on the bottom so I guess was their own in house version. Would love to see a great photo or scan of this version too.
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 4:52 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: British Mutoscope marquee art wanted
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3216
Re: British Mutoscope marquee art wanted
Certainly the same reel PM. That's an odd size marquee and frame I've never seen before. Great artwork but I imagine either specially made for this electric Muto or made up more recently?
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 1:46 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: British Mutoscope marquee art wanted
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3216
British Mutoscope marquee art wanted
Maybe someone has this artwork? The reel is a UK produced version called Death Dive of a bicycle jump into a tiny pool, and so had a uniquely British card to go with it. I found this old arcade photograph with the artwork i need and while there is just enough there for me to work from, obviously a p...
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 1:05 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Allwin identification
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1791
Re: Allwin identification
The plane in the original machine photo sure looks dodgy to me - appears hand cut. The line of the body and tail-fin is a little off, and the small inset tip at the tail-fin base is very lopsided. And looks like the rhd bottom wing tip is cut flat instead of round. As JC already stated, would be an ...
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 3:55 pm
- Forum: Auction Community
- Topic: Saleroom roundups
- Replies: 242
- Views: 142647
Re: Saleroom roundups
$553 USD for a Bryans Hidden Treasure?? Blimey. The Yanks are blithering idiots. Someone stole this machine. J Peterson Crying in my beer, USA. !!CHEERS!! JP, when I was growing up the commonly used term for you good ol' boys when visiting Aust was "Seppo" ie: Yank = Septic Tank = Full of...
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 11:39 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Genco King Fish
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1384
Re: Genco King Fish
JC, if you look closely at the side view of the machine you'll notice the cabinet has a pronounced deeper front 1/3 of the cabinet, that no basic pinball has, which is needed to hold the payout mechanism And there is an added drawer below the front door, the drawers were usually pivoting in action t...
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 3:25 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Smells a bit "Fishy"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 757
Re: Smells a bit "Fishy"
Hey Roger, maybe if you put links to your dodgy auction finds you'll get more replies. Many of us aren't retired.
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 3:12 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Caille / Clement & Whales Countertop disc machines
- Replies: 162
- Views: 90950
Re: Caille / Clement & Whales Countertop disc machines
Hey PM, this reply from Dick is actually in the Sept/Oct 1995 issue of Coin-Op Classics. After having just read through over 600 mags I'm getting them confused! And by the way, I spoke with Greg McLemore about the issues searching his International Arcade Museum e-magazine database. Turns out there ...
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 6:11 pm
- Forum: Discoveries
- Topic: GIRLS and FLEAS
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10175
Re: GIRLS and FLEAS
Where they came up with that fanciful date is beyond me?! Ha, well in the same magazine interview, Marvin happily admits to being a bullshit artist and embellishing the stories to many of his machines and pieces! "I have a slot machine on display, just a normal machine. I put a story on the ma...
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 3:32 pm
- Forum: Discoveries
- Topic: GIRLS and FLEAS
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10175
Re: GIRLS and FLEAS
Hey Roger, you wanted to know the location of this pictured machine. Since at least 1988 it has been in the ownership of Marvin's Marvelous Mechnical Museum and still on location there being operated. In a Spring 1988 The Coin Slot magazine interview with owner Marvin Yagoda, there is a photo of the...
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 5:13 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Caille / Clement & Whales Countertop disc machines
- Replies: 162
- Views: 90950
Re: Streching the truth...
What did the undisputed authority on American slot machine history, Dick Bueschel, say about it? Nothing, as far as I can tell, neither in his many meticulously researched books, nor his magazine articles. Hey PM, Dick did mention these Brit Caille copies in several Questions to the editor pages in...
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 3:20 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Caille / Clement & Whales Countertop disc machines
- Replies: 162
- Views: 90950
Re: Caille / Clement & Whales Countertop disc machines
Great forensic research PM. One thing I will say about the Walter Chandler presentation plate on the double - it's atrocious! Absolutely amateurish work and there is no way in hell that anybody, let alone the Caille Company, would have ever commissioned that to be placed on a trophy they were handin...
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 10:01 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Looking to confirm this French collector, circa 1991
- Replies: 4
- Views: 961
Re: Looking to confirm this French collector, circa 1991
Sorry Cait have never seen any videos taken at those expos.
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 5:22 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Looking to confirm this French collector, circa 1991
- Replies: 4
- Views: 961
Re: Looking to confirm this French collector, circa 1991
I believe these pics were taken from a Nippon Television show that included Dick Bueschel, which was a search for Pachinko history. Dick spoke about the making of the tv show at the 1992 Pinball Expo, and his speech is written about in the Spring 1993 issue of The Coin Slot magazine. Sadly Dick only...
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 11:46 am
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Brit Export machine history, from "The Coin Slot"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1257
Re: Brit Export machine history, from "The Coin Slot"
From: The Coin Slot magazine Winter 1992/93, Bill Whelan interview: I've purchased machines from outside the country. They've been brought in by other dealers. As far as foreign machines, I used to buy a lot that came in from England and re-coined them for the American market. At that time they were...
- Tue Sep 19, 2023 12:14 am
- Forum: Build a Slot Machine
- Topic: Not an Allwin but...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5909
Re: Not an Allwin but .....
I appreciate your method here, but back in the day they used a much easier way which was to fret cut the spiral from a board, then attach that to a solid backboard.