Figural Hen vendors

john t peterson · Post by **john t peterson** » Sun Jan 12, 2014 2:04 pm

I particularly like the bottom picture in Mr. PM's post: bacon and eggs. Who says arcade owners don't have a fabulous sense of humor??

J Peterson
American farmer

ddstoys · Post by **ddstoys** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 10:39 am

Any luck with this beauty mate?

gameswat · Post by **gameswat** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 10:58 am

Sadly not lately, too broke to work on my own stuff.

But I started out making a mock up of the one missing lever from the coin mech out of card to begin with and the thing ran. So then will make one out of alloy to fine tune, then finally steel and harden it. Have been buying up original antique tin litho eggs to fill it though which has been fun. Just the cheep ones that nobody else wants!

pennymachines · Post by **pennymachines** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 12:04 pm

The ones that go cheep don't contain chocolate.

In Costa's Penny Machines Picture Book, the Clucking Hen is attributed to R. Reichart of Dresden, but with its end-mounted crank etc. looks more like MUM, and the Poule Automatique which he attributes to P. Leoni of Paris looks like the Stollwerck & Co. version.

ddstoys · Post by **ddstoys** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 9:59 am

I know that feeling mate still haven't opened a certain new machine yet

pennymachines · Post by **pennymachines** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 12:18 pm

Another by MUM at marktplaats.nl:

john t peterson · Post by **john t peterson** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 1:09 pm

9,5000 E???

That hen must be laying true gold eggs.

J Peterson
Laying around in America

anglobritish · Post by **anglobritish** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 11:55 pm

Guy's,
I am attaching various pictures of the Hen Vendor from my collection of German flyers, one is from the Strolwerks catalog of 1899.

Enjoy
Freddy bailey

bryans fan · Post by **bryans fan** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 11:48 am

I recently acquired this postcard.

gameswat · Post by **gameswat** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:21 pm

Great card Bryans!! Now just find the machine to match.

The body of an early zinc hen just sold on Ebay in the US for almost nothing. 1890's Coin Operated Chicken Hen Chocolate Egg Laying Vending Machine Stollwerck
I researched this for a friend who was excited about it but something happened and his bid didn't work!?

I've only seen one other example of this machine and that has a label stating "Souvenir Vending Co" in the US, so operated over there from new. But I think this is a French made machine, or at least the case is as have never seen the mech. Because, the zinc cases and trade signs seem to be purely a French manufacturing process. Whereas in the US the pressed trade signs and weather veins all seem to be in copper and never zinc. I particularly like the glass eyes in this model.

john t peterson · Post by **john t peterson** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 7:28 pm

Unfortunately for us mortals, Gameswat, we are without your talents and cannot build a mechanism from scratch. Unusual as the shell might be, it would only be good for a New Years' eve party hat.

J Peterson
Hen-Pecked in America

gameswat · Post by **gameswat** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 10:31 am

John T. Peterson wrote:Unfortunately for us mortals, Gameswat, we are without your talents and cannot build a mechanism from scratch. Unusual as the shell might be, it would only be good for a New Years' eve party hat.

I'd sooner have a part of something special....rather than nothing at all JP! On my measly income I have to make do with the crumbs that the millionaire collectors miss or don't care for. In fact I have a house full of interesting "things", many Frankensteined together from parts, and not that many are used for what they were originally intended. The 19th Century French figural zinc shop signs look identical to the hen becuase they were made by the same artisans. And they usually sell for thousands, now considered highly desirable folk art.

pennymachines · Post by **pennymachines** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 1:57 pm

We're kindred spirits Gameswat!

This thread wouldn't be complete without mention of two other chocolate egg laying metal birds - the goose and the stork:

: From Alte Münzautomaten

ddstoys · Post by **ddstoys** » Sat Jul 04, 2015 12:19 pm

Gameswat wrote:I'd sooner have a part of something special....rather than nothing at all JP! On my measly income I have to make do with the crumbs that the millionaire collectors miss or don't care for..

Then I take the crumbs even you don't want

pennymachines · Post by **pennymachines** » Sun Jul 23, 2017 9:00 am

Postcard from Bryans Fan:

13rebel · Post by **13rebel** » Sun Jul 23, 2017 9:51 pm

Aaaah... the joys of youth, sadly long gone for me. Great photo, thanks for posting.

pennymachines · Post by **pennymachines** » Mon Jul 24, 2017 12:44 pm

Gameswat wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2014 8:22 am The style of that base immediately makes me think of BAC. And since they were the major vending operators in the UK at that time my feeling is this machine was probably copied from the Hartwig and Vogel machines by them under licence. Just as I believe they did with the Roovers Metal Stampers.

The postcard lends support to that theory.

bryans fan · Post by **bryans fan** » Mon Jul 24, 2017 3:38 pm

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