Empire Cup, Aerial Cup, Busy Bee & Tom Thumb

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Re: The Empire Cup & Busy Bee

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Clearly they were made over some time, judging by the design variation in the examples above. This latest one appears to have two ball triggers.


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The interior view again suggests British-made.
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Re: The Empire Cup & Busy Bee

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I still hope to find one of those. :)
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Another Busy Bee turned up at Sworders auctioneers on 3rd March.
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Re: Empire Cup, Aerial Cup & Busy Bee

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Yes saw that, in fact I stood in the auction room as there was another bagatelle machine there... Never bid as sold for a fair bit as it was in poor condition. Funny, while I was there I bumped into the guy who runs the House on the Hill Museum in Stansted Mountfitchet... I've forgotten his name, but chewed the breeze on the world of slots.
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That would be rock concert promoter Alan Goldsmith (brother of Harvey Goldsmith), who used to organise annual slot machine auctions at Saffron Walden.

Here's the Uneda bagatelle table from that sale.
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That’s him. He’s involved in an antiques shop and regular auction as well now, though not specialising in amusements....
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pennymachines wrote: Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:48 pm Here's the Uneda bagatelle table from that sale.
Brilliant bit of woodwork on that playfield.
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Another Empire Cup, currently on German ebay.
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And Tom Thumb...
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