Figural Hen vendors
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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
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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!
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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.
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.
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9,5000 E???
That hen must be laying true gold eggs.
J Peterson
Laying around in America
That hen must be laying true gold eggs.
J Peterson
Laying around in America
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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
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
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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.
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.
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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.
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Hen-Pecked in America
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Hen-Pecked in America
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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.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.
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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:
This thread wouldn't be complete without mention of two other chocolate egg laying metal birds - the goose and the stork:
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Then I take the crumbs even you don't wantGameswat 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..
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Aaaah... the joys of youth, sadly long gone for me. Great photo, thanks for posting.
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The postcard lends support to that theory.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.
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