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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sorry Cait have never seen any videos taken at those expos.

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...

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...

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.

Looks like silk screened art to me on to white card. Tell tale sign is the thick textured mesh pattern from the silk screen.

I've never seen this unusual Nutt & Muddle "Jubilee Monarch" slot before. As seen in the November 1993 Loose Change magazine, Aristocrat article. The caption reads: "This Nutt & Muddle Jubilee Monarch is typical of the type of mechanical slot machines produced during the early...

Found this in the Mailbox page of the May 1983 issue of Loose Change magazine. The editor rightly attributes it as a British revamp of a Jennings Little Duke. But look at it compared to the original machine with all the new castings added to the top half of the mech to make it a multi head game!? Ap...

Another variation of the Firman Egyptian front as shown on the cover of Loose Change, June 1982. Inside caption reads: "While the rest of the country suffers economic woes, California restorer Steve Squires sells restored slot machines to a unique clientele at an un-precedented rate - and at ve...

From: Loose Change magazine, November 1980 - Volume 3, number 11. "Slot machines in England, by William Berke, MD": "My odyssey in search for the ancient American slot machine did not commence until June 1978. By this time the pound was recovering and coupled with the waning value of ...

Roger, funnily enough the last 3 months I've been immersed in the US collecting scene from 1977 until a few years ago, and to a lesser extent the UK scene as well, thanks to inheriting the huge coin-op magazine collection from Aussie super collector Bob Klepner. What is amazing is how obsessed the s...

Just reread, and the line about you not being that interested is not quite what I meant to say. Roger, obviously you were well ahead of the curve as a Yank actually buying Brit machines, especially when almost nobody else would even look at them! But I can appreciate that when nobody else shows anyw...

Well Roger, why are Allwins any different than the so called "One Arm Bandits" that are also machines that sell for an array of prices whereas they are so similar in operation and differ only in the graphics!?!? As for varying prices for Allwins in the US, almost no Yanks have ever been se...

Just a simple flasher for lighting: heats up which breaks the circuit via the bi-metallic switch, then cools down and makes the circuit again. I have some US examples that are small buttons you can place underneath Edison bulbs to do the same thing, but only 110v. Never found any of those for 240v.

It seems some Brits still don't understand how so many of their slots ended up in the States. Hopefully this helps explain. I was given the huge lot of coin-op magazines that had belonged to super collector Bob Klepner, about 600, dating late 1970s up to 2020. My faves have been the 100 issues of &q...

Two page advert from the fall 1984 issue of "The Coin Slot" magazine, which was the best coin-op collectors mag published in the USA back then.

But why the parachutist in the centre of the second page?!