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I agree, I scrapped 3 of these last year for the mechs, though you cannot fit a jackpot to these as the baseplate has been shortened.

Rare Olly Whales Major on ebay, only £109 with less than 3 hours to go, trouble is it's in Germany and it's cash on collection: item no. 220773647472.
Edit-just realised the payout mech is missing.

You can claim the fee back if the sale did not complete.
There are lots of printing blocks on ebay, one is selling a carousel block for £5 Buy-it-Now, not a pinball I know but...

I contacted the seller when he first listed this and told him it was probably a Watling Mint Vender with a later jackpot front slapped on, but he insists its a Mills mechanism, so a mystery.

From what I can remember, 30 odd of these were made about 15 - 20 years ago. No original parts were used.

Looks interesting, I would say it's a Sega. The whole machine looks as though it can be pulled off the base complete. The electrics look daunting though. I notice a multi socket from the mech seems to go nowhere.

The bandit was a Bollands Mills revamp; the only thing left of the Mills was the mech.

I think I underbid this, John Hayward in Brighton has spares for them. I have reels for these.

It lives here now

I got to say I like 4 reelers. I have one of these which is quite similar but with a metal award card, but I think I prefer the Bell-O-Matic.

Goofbay is quite a good sniping tool & allows you to specify to the second when your bid goes in, however as with all software, it is not infallible, especially as more people are trying the same thing. All part of the fun of bidding though & can irritate the life out of other losing bidder...

£908, about $1250. Daveslot, you should have bid 1000. You could have doubled that to a US buyer. Really? Even though this had a missing back bonnet, back door, cashbox, needed a new wooden base and he didn't know if it was complete or working! Also shipping costs, I recently bought over a Buckaroo...

I was using a snipe, it's just his bid appeared at the very last second; I did not think this was possible with sniping software.

Did anyone buy this on here? I just wanted to know how they placed a bid in the final second of the auction, just outbidding me

Allwin now on ebay: 300477399117, never seen one before. Like the transfers.

Quite a few of these ended up in England. Most of the ones I have seen had the skill stop. I know some were converted to fortune tellers in the early 1940s because I have some somewhere.

beautifully restored? according to gameswat these were never plated , so over restored, some may say even ruined, though it looks very nice.

Do you mean the Lemaitre book 100 ans de machines a sous or is there a similar book?

How come the third WW2 allwin, ebay item no.280551957413, only fetched £797? Seems cheap compared to the others and is just as rare.

French I would say, maybe by Nau, looks rough, also the side door is missing which I presume was also cast iron.