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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...

I also had another Bradfort machine, a Love Test. I obtained this in the largest bunch of coin op machines that I ever got which took years to consummate. This collection included a rare Bryan’s crane in a wooden cabinet, Arnolds English Execution, 2 early countertop Mutoscopes in wooden cabinets, b...

Indeed it was Bradfort. The bottom of the Gypsy Fortune teller machine states it is "Embodying Bradfort "Flick" and Bradspin units Regd.

I only had the door not the cabinet and don't remember what happened to that. It was a good door and I would have used it for something else as I don't have it any more. Same with the coin entry which is an interesting one. I agree with Mr Pennymachines making this a topic on its own and thank him a...

I learnt recently from a collector friend in Sydney that he had bought the Old Thro Ball machine at an auction sale of showman’s equipment in about 2001. The machine was in a much more deteriorated state than in the photo that I have published here which has a date stamp of 1988. However, although t...

Post split from Australian Manufactured Coin Op Machines - Site Admin. I learnt recently from a collector friend in Sydney that he had bought the Old Thro Ball machine at an auction sale of showman’s equipment in about 2001. The machine was in a much more deteriorated state than in the photo that I...

Wow Mr Pennymachines ! I've looked in the Museum and what you can do with a photo is fantastic.

Here's a photo of a machine I came across in New Zealand in 1993. This was a cast iron Cadbury's vending machine with vitreous enamel plates that had been found bricked in behind a wall in a shop in New Zealand some years before. I don't think the machine is still in New Zealand.

Sorry to be obtuse Mr Pennymachines, how do I get "bigger" images?
By the way, I thought I had posted them upright, not on their sides and could not find how to alter.

Today in researching something I am about to write dealing with one of my most unusual restorations, I came across a couple of answers to recent concerns. The book I was looking in is a German book called Automaten Welten. There I came across another maker of a figural match vending machine the exis...

I've taken some more photos of the monument cigarette machine. It's a hard machine to photograph.