OK, let's talk RARE one arm bandits....
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I think you will find most vendors are open fronted on all makes of early machines. That was in fact the object - you were pretending to be vending a product, not running a gambling machine.
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Funny old topic this one, as there are probably hundreds of machines that could be called rare, but I have always had an appeal to quirky and rare and especially associated with machines used in the U.K. (erm and Australia )
I was digging through some old pictures I captured of sold machines I used to track in the days when selling on eBay was possible, and the below machine really appealed to me, on old penny, based on a good, old machine with a nice British twist with a football theme. An early Jennings Dutch boy on penny with football reel strips. Never seen another and it looked that part... I should have bought it. I wonder if it ended up getting stripped, polished and having replacement strips.
I was digging through some old pictures I captured of sold machines I used to track in the days when selling on eBay was possible, and the below machine really appealed to me, on old penny, based on a good, old machine with a nice British twist with a football theme. An early Jennings Dutch boy on penny with football reel strips. Never seen another and it looked that part... I should have bought it. I wonder if it ended up getting stripped, polished and having replacement strips.
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I made replacement reel strips for this (or one like it) for a collector a couple of years ago. (I thought I still had them on file but might have lost them in a computer crash last year so can't post, a pity). As Tom says, really unusual set up, the original strips had the Samson (London) maker's name on them.
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Well if it was the same machine, the strips looked great and nicely aged, case in point if the same.
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No, these were gone. I had trouble identifying some of the artwork in fact.
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I own that machine. Unfortunately someone had started to strip it. I left it for years as I liked it as it was. Then had room for it in the arcade so did strip the rest of the paint off. Then had a new reward card made. Obviously I left the original strips on as they are amazing tinplate strips dated 1924. Never seen any others.
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Beautiful machine, it would definitely make my top shelf display.
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Anybody seen one of these before. Jennings Victoria with 1d/50c escalator.
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Peacock and jackpot Victoria... Peacock is in Australian museum with poker strips.
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The two you have pictured are not particularly rare. It was the Victoria C (I think it's a C) with escalator I thought was rare. The escalator is quite different to the normal chain driven affair.
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