Automatic Sports Co. Cricketer at HutchinsonScott

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Alexander Thynn, otherwise known as Lord Bath (6.5.1932 - 4.4.2020) the 7th Marquess of Bath, was what we in the UK call "an eccentric" both in his dress sense and his private life. :lol:
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pennymachines wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 12:30 pm I'm amazed a Cricketer was still being operated so 'recently', yooser27. Great to hear those memories. Yes, do quiz your brother. !THUMBS!
Hello,
My brother doesn't remember much more than me except that the cricket game was boring
I will be going past Raby Mere tomorrow and will have a nostalgic look around.
Cheers from Neale.
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It's a good job your brother isn't contributing to the auction catalogue then. !!UHOH!!
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He is right though; a large proportion of early coin op is dull to play. You wonder how operators ever made money. I guess life was much more simple then. :HaHa:
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Gameplay on these earliest machines can be a bit underwhelming, but that's now part of their charm. It's fun to see their primitive mechanisms in action and marvel at what naive amusement a penny could buy at the start of the 20th century.

The Cricketer mechanism is evidently more or less identical to the Two Man Footballer. On that game you insert one penny and can win it back by shooting the ball into either of the goals. If it goes beyond the goals, you lose.

Looking at the instructions and various pictures, the win targets on the Cricketer seem to be the losers on the Footballer. The aim seems to be to knock the ball beyond the left hand or right hand boundary (marked by red and blue flags), presumably achieved by either striking it with the bat, or bowling it beyond the batsman. It appears that directly hitting the stumps would result in a lose, which seems a bit counterintuitive. Perhaps I'm mistaken. :!?!:
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The game is to show the skill of the batsman. As clearly this is W.G. Grace, everyone would want to bat. So as a two player game the operator would hope for at least two plays. The batsman wins if he scores a boundary; any other result when the batsman is out bowled, caught or stumped gives no reward to the bowler other than the satisfaction of beating Mr. Grace!
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Now you put it that way, it all makes sense. :cool:
If the bowler throws it past WG and it goes out of bounds, the coin's returned for another play.
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I have cricket, golf and football, certainly not among my favourite machines but they do have their place in the history of coin op.
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That's quite a set! It would be great to see pictures of them.
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I’ll grab a pic of the golf later :)
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Fantastic! Thank you so much for that. Is the aforementioned crown above the instructions on your Cricketer a crest or the three cricketer casting?
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It has a coat of arms above the plate and two finials on top. Salter casting. I’ll get some better pics when I get a chance. :)
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sentimental salvage wrote: Sun May 02, 2021 12:08 pm I’ll grab a pic of the golf later :)
lovely, thank you!
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So who sold grandmother's teeth...? .£18000 plus the extras. :roll:

Is it staying in U.K. or unfortunately abroad? :!?!:
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I didnt want to get caught up in a bidding war on the day, so just chucked a bid in with the auctioneers last week. I thought I stood a good chance @ £12K but seems now
others got carried away. Anyway, the winning bidder likely doing cartwheels now!
Hopefully, stays in UK but I know a big collector in Manhattan posted on another site that he was going to bid, so maybe Jack bought it with an extra bid at the end?
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Started off slow and quite a few bidders up to £15,000 and then just a couple slogging it out after that; a couple of last second bids from those that had dropped out pulling back in again along the way.
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