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by sweetmeats
Thu Dec 08, 2022 8:43 am
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Improved Pickwick variants
Replies: 55
Views: 27517

Re: Cresset Improved Pickwick

The Klein machine was sold on Sunday in the Elephant Auction. If you contact Steve Hunt, he may be able to put you in touch with the purchaser. There is probably a photo of the inside of the machine on his website available to a paid up member.
by sweetmeats
Tue Nov 08, 2022 4:42 pm
Forum: Auction Community
Topic: Auction Fever
Replies: 4
Views: 1902

Re: Auction Fever

With regard to the Madam Zita fortune tellers the original Roover's machines from circa 1890 were reproduced in the early 2000s. About 20 were made and sold for under $10,000 each. Auction houses often do not state which they are selling. Still the price sold at Morphy's sale was exceptional. Others...
by sweetmeats
Sat Oct 22, 2022 9:19 am
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: English Execution
Replies: 3
Views: 1930

Re: English Execution

On looking closer at the pictures, I now think it is a Lee of Blackpool, made between 1920 and 1950.
by sweetmeats
Sat Oct 22, 2022 9:07 am
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: English Execution
Replies: 3
Views: 1930

Re: English Execution

This is a John Dennison circa 1890 English.
by sweetmeats
Sat Oct 15, 2022 8:33 pm
Forum: Open Forum
Topic: Woe is me !!!!
Replies: 5
Views: 2137

Re: Woe is me !!!!

Roger, so pleased I helped identify the Coochee Coochee for you. You would be pleased to know it lives in New York with one of the greatest and rare collections of coin op machines and is owned by very proud long standing collector. I add a photo I took on my first visit to his house in Greenwich Vi...
by sweetmeats
Thu Oct 13, 2022 6:11 pm
Forum: Open Forum
Topic: Woe is me !!!!
Replies: 5
Views: 2137

Re: Woe is me !!!!

I believe the machine you are thinking of is owned by Ken Rubens, author of Drop Coin Here . When my wife and I visited about seven years ago, I took him some old French 10c coins to operate it. They are slightly smaller than an English penny. He asked my wife which of all his collection she liked b...
by sweetmeats
Wed May 25, 2022 2:57 pm
Forum: Auction Community
Topic: EH / Collector Connector sales
Replies: 1406
Views: 505495

Re: EH / Collector Connector sales

Sale cat now on line on easy line auctions site.
by sweetmeats
Thu Mar 24, 2022 1:18 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Bajazzo Clown wall machines
Replies: 198
Views: 76639

Re: Bajazzo Clown wall machines

The Clown you have looks to have a green cloth making it later, probably 1920s. The number on the side J... suggests it may be Jenson and made in Germany. Regards tokens for this machine, they are quite easy to find. I suggest a wanted add on this site. They should cost you 25/50p each, depending if...
by sweetmeats
Sun Feb 20, 2022 7:53 pm
Forum: Auction Community
Topic: Spicers vintage slot machine auctions
Replies: 94
Views: 13857

Re: Spicers slot auction 25 Feb 22

I agree with treefrog the coin entry is wrong on the football game and the oak case is much newer than the mech. I believe the mech is all original from what can be seen from the pictures. I have seen six of these in wooden cases over the last 30 years and this is the least convincing original case....
by sweetmeats
Sat Feb 19, 2022 6:09 pm
Forum: Auction Community
Topic: Spicers vintage slot machine auctions
Replies: 94
Views: 13857

Re: Spicers slot auction 25 Feb 22

The small footballer is a Matthewson. Wooden case looks totally okay to me. May be a new oak case but I do not think so. Newer? No, circa 1898!
by sweetmeats
Sun Sep 26, 2021 5:34 pm
Forum: Open Forum
Topic: Pipe Dream
Replies: 20
Views: 5899

Re: Pipe Dream

I have just acquired this photo showing the Mermaid restored by the two young antique dealers who found it in a field in two parts with a tree growing through the base. Not sure where and when this picture was taken. Maybe gameswat can help?
by sweetmeats
Fri Jul 23, 2021 10:01 am
Forum: Open Forum
Topic: Pipe Dream
Replies: 20
Views: 5899

Re: Pipe Dream

I can tell you how David Copperfield came to know about and buy the yacht racer. A friend of mine at the time who was a professional photographer who lived in Deal had a daughter who was a magician working in Vegas. While visiting her she was approached by David to introduce him to her father who sh...
by sweetmeats
Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:40 am
Forum: Open Forum
Topic: Pipe Dream
Replies: 20
Views: 5899

Re: Pipe Dream

I agree that gameswat's suggestion that each machine was worked on "off site" and then swapped over on location is much more likely.
by sweetmeats
Tue Jul 20, 2021 5:59 pm
Forum: Open Forum
Topic: Pipe Dream
Replies: 20
Views: 5899

Re: Pipe Dream

Son now home so pictures now added.
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by sweetmeats
Tue Jul 20, 2021 11:16 am
Forum: Open Forum
Topic: Pipe Dream
Replies: 20
Views: 5899

Re: Pipe Dream

I am afraid this a dream that can never be realised for the following reason - only one of these exists and is now in a collection in New York. This used to be owned by the late Bob Klepner, and was originally part of a consignment sold to Australia circa 1903 by Rollands, the only machines he ever ...
by sweetmeats
Tue Jul 20, 2021 11:16 am
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: The Undiscovered
Replies: 30
Views: 8290

Re: The Undiscovered

Copied & split from Pipe Dream - Site Admin.

My pipe dream machine would be the Holy Grail machine - the Palmer's Cycle Racer. I have seen this machine on postcards on several piers and tea gardens and hotels and other locations. I am not aware that any survive, but maybe???
by sweetmeats
Tue Jul 20, 2021 10:49 am
Forum: Open Forum
Topic: Octagonal mutoscope rarity?
Replies: 6
Views: 1541

Re: Octagonal mutoscope rarity?

There is an illustration of the mutoscope stand in Nick Costa's book, page194. I have seen four of these in England (one of these now in the USA). There must be others. Much rarer are the triangular marques. The one illustrated in Costa's book is a line drawing and not correct. The only original one...
by sweetmeats
Wed Jun 30, 2021 8:14 am
Forum: Auction Community
Topic: Dutch Auction Co.
Replies: 11
Views: 3554

Dutch Auction Co.

Dutch Auction Company auction on 10 July cat now on saleroom, well worth a look. Sale includes shooters, shockers, fortune tellers and a crane plus many other lots. The estimates seem high but the starting bids are set at half the lower estimates so guess these are the reserves. Listed also on this ...
by sweetmeats
Mon Jun 28, 2021 12:39 pm
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: Very old amusement arcade
Replies: 16
Views: 3047

Re: Very old amusement arcade

This is a picture of the iron clads by the gents toilets at Chessington Zoo. I was told that Mr Bolland said that this site was one of their best money takers.
by sweetmeats
Fri Jun 25, 2021 8:04 pm
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: Very old amusement arcade
Replies: 16
Views: 3047

Re: Very old amusement arcade

These machines were at Chessington Zoo, operated by Samson (Holloway). More pictures to follow, including Bolland's fortune tellers located next to the gents toilet! Anyone to spend a penny?