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A non online auction had an interesting collection of machines today......including the rare Shooting Star with only damage to cash box I could see.
Also a nice looking monkey climber....

A lot of allwins had issues like missing cups etc. Horseshoe was in pieces, Mills bandits were rough with damaged castings


Prices below
Monkey climber £992
Horseshoe Allwin £223
Sevenwin Allwin £373
Bmco playball £372
Wonders £496
Kiss O Meter £446
Fortune teller £484
Ciggie allwin £471
Shooting Star £918
Mills bandit £347
Mills bandit £310

Cheap monkey climber!

moonriver wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 7:27 pm Cheap monkey climber!

It was the only one I bought, not my normal thing, but loved the casting, which were hidden by plyboard with original coin cups. I guess hidden when changed to another coin. Seen another one posted by Daveslot years ago below. Anyone know who made these? In fact the only thread on monkey climbers is the same one below: If not dogs, why not monkeys?

Not exactly politically correct (as not monkeys that are climbing!), but worth double. Nice piece for home collection, but problematic to operate.

What's the difference between the Shooting Star and a Challenger?

I understand it's the motif cast into the spiny bit at the top.

Well apart from the nicer motif, the main difference is the front alli casting frame that is hinged at the bottom to allow easy access to clear jams.....

Well, unloaded and will need to tinker on this beast, looks very original. Lots of old foliage which they used for the small trees laying around and lots of lead Britains animals secured to the base. The whole back is tin and looks very original. The climbers are very heavy and, I assume, are lead. Hopefully will replace the later coin slide for 1D and get the coin return working again....have yet to find maker's name yet, but not investigated internals yet....

The Climbing Monkeys is a machine that would drive me insane - what was the artist thinking!???? The painted palms trees are to scale but the girl is the 40ft tall? Years ago in the US I was going to do a deal with a friend for a 1928 K.O. Boxers machine, classic all mechanical game. But after spending some time with the couple of examples he owned I changed my mind. The deciding factor being the background artwork out of scale!

You obviously have forgotten the classic Hollywood B movies like attack of the 50ft woman to be honest, fairground and old amusement art is unique and should never be in perspective, accurate or precise, that is what makes them.....I also collect fairground art for this reason.

jimmycowman wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 8:10 pm What's the difference between the Shooting Star and a Challenger?

About 600 quid, by the look of it!

Terrific catch on the monkeys, Treefrog. Keep us up to date on the restoration, please. I love the whole package.

"Lucky Horse Shoe" was also a missed bargain. It's an extremely unusual allwin with a unique hybrid auto-pay feature peculiar to this machine. They also made a more standard manual pay-out version. Years ago, I wrote an article on this game for Jerry's AAM magazine.

J Peterson
Monkey's Uncle in America

Yep, someone got lucky with that Lucky Horse Shoe. Great little allwin.

Well done on acquiring your arcade piece TF. I don't know the maker but maybe the owner of this one has more info:



South Shields Museum Exhibition

Most of the machines were bought by phone bidders, I would like to see their faces when they find out the condition of what they bought. I went with the intention of buying but silly prices for the condition. But I guess I now know what Treefrog looks like!

pennymachines wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:59 pm I don't know the maker but maybe the owner of this one has more info:



South Shields Museum Exhibition

I haven't been able to ascertain the manufacturer. It's been put to me that it's Ruffler & Walker (though, if so, the mechanism bears no similarity to their better known two player games). As you can see from the pictures, the original machine name artwork (which I still have) is not at all PC, so I replaced it with artwork reading 'The climbing men' (just flagging the point that the machine was never produced under the name '..climbing men')

I'd be interested to see a pic of your machine mechanism T as mine has a rod lying in the base of the cabinet which I haven't managed to place - although the machine mechanism functions; so curious about that!

Coin-op, I remember you and I discussed this machine when you first acquired it - didn't one of us suggest Myers, or am I thinking of something else?

JC wrote: ↑Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:17 pm Coin-op, I remember you and I discussed this machine when you first acquired it - didn't one of us suggest Myers, or am I thinking of something else?

I vaguely remember a conversation, but that’s about it. Not sure if we just floated a few names as I can’t figure now why Myers proved a candidate.

Here's a picture of a Climbing Monkeys machine in Oz with what I imagine was its original artwork.

Thanks Bob, now that's more like it, that artwork makes the machine! A hundred times better than the oversize pinup girl. Maybe she's a hallucinogenic fantasy dream the climbers are having? And looks a lot better without the glued on animals.

Essex made monkey climbers, but I don't think they were as wide as this one. More like a crane-size case.

gameswat wrote: ↑Fri Dec 21, 2018 8:54 am Thanks Bob, now that's more like it, that artwork makes the machine! A hundred times better than the oversize pinup girl. Maybe she's a hallucinogenic fantasy dream the climbers are having? And looks a lot better without the glued on animals.

Me suspects this one has lost a lot of the original stuff as there is no features on the main field like trees and rock structures like the one coinop has and auction one. Also artwork looks fresh to me and maybe more like an Aussie coastline

Coinop will get some pictures inside and would be great to get pictures of the coin return and coin entry for the two coin play as I can see what has been done to bypass this, just don’t know what may be missing. Cheers.

Yes, Essex made them and there are lots of pictures on another thread of these. One sold last year at Reeman Dansie for around £2k last year.