Ripplers: repro & real
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Sorry but it looks "brand new " to me, certainly not how you would expect a 70 year old machine to look.
I suspect it is another, rather better finished, repro.
I suspect it is another, rather better finished, repro.
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Re: Ripplers: repro & real
Good shout, Slot King. If we all knew what things were going to be or not be worth something in the future, we would all be millionaires. This is the fun thing in collecting.
Spot the Difference
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How do you tell the difference between the original Bryan's Ripplers and the other ones which I am led to believe where built from some original parts by a private collector. Don't know if that is true but that's what I heard.
The reason I ask is because there is Bryans Rippler up on ebay at the moment and I didn't know if it was an original.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/The-Rippler-Penny ... C294%3A200
How do you tell the difference between the original Bryan's Ripplers and the other ones which I am led to believe where built from some original parts by a private collector. Don't know if that is true but that's what I heard.
The reason I ask is because there is Bryans Rippler up on ebay at the moment and I didn't know if it was an original.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/The-Rippler-Penny ... C294%3A200
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The main differences are, in my opinion, that the repros are in mahogany cases with brass fittings, whereas the originals were in oak cases, with chromed fittings. The originals also have the same moulding as the Payramid round the edge of front. They are also 70 years old!
From the Bryans Museum.
From the Bryans Museum.
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Thanks for letting me know the difference between the two.
What do they normally go for? £510 seems quite high especially for a repro one
What do they normally go for? £510 seems quite high especially for a repro one
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Yes, £510 is a lot of money for a repro. I just hope the buyer isn't too disappoimted - the Rippler isn't a brilliant game, certainly not one of Bryans best.
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Yeah I agree, never has appealed to me really.
I have been offered a couple in the past and turned them down mostly due to not knowing if they were orginals or not.
I have been offered a couple in the past and turned them down mostly due to not knowing if they were orginals or not.
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Rippler
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A Rippler described as a 1930s machine on a black cast stand went on e-Bay today at £250 buy it now. I do hope the new owner who snapped it up toot sweet doesn't end up disappointed.
Doesn't sound too much if it was a replica, assuming you're into replicas. But that wasn't how it was described. The vendor was newly registered.
A Rippler described as a 1930s machine on a black cast stand went on e-Bay today at £250 buy it now. I do hope the new owner who snapped it up toot sweet doesn't end up disappointed.
Doesn't sound too much if it was a replica, assuming you're into replicas. But that wasn't how it was described. The vendor was newly registered.
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It's definitely a repro; but it's cheap by comparison to the repro which sold for £1,400 two or three years back!
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Wow Mr badpenny, you found that quick, it couldn't have been on ebay long Even if it was a repro, it was still the right money methinks.
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I just happened to be in the right place at the right time Jimmy. Like when you are in the pit milking your cows and the one whose teats you're wiping suddenly lifts her tail!
I agree the price was OK for a replica, but it was not described thus.
I agree the price was OK for a replica, but it was not described thus.
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I was once sad enough to be monitoring ebay and a Addam's family pinball came up on a buy-it-now for £700...... these are popular machines and I have always wanted one - they usually fetch well over a £1000.... Anyway within 3 mins of the advert being placed, I cached it away and was about to ask a question of the seller, but by the time I had gone to post it, it had already been sold.......less than 3 mins
Not sure if it is a record, but that is quick.........
Not sure if it is a record, but that is quick.........
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By my record that happened to a Conveyor allwin on ebay last year with a buy-it-now at £500 and something
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Joe Pettitt Collection - Wednesday 26 May 2010
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Hi
There is an auction of the Joe Pettitt Collection on Wednesday 26 May 2010 at Battlesbridge, Essex.
This includes three machines in lots 945 A 1960's mechanical fairground arcade 'Snap' penny slot machine and lots 962 & 963 two 'The Rippler' penny slot machine'.
The link is:
http://www.staceyauction.com/catalogue. ... ction=8888
Hi
There is an auction of the Joe Pettitt Collection on Wednesday 26 May 2010 at Battlesbridge, Essex.
This includes three machines in lots 945 A 1960's mechanical fairground arcade 'Snap' penny slot machine and lots 962 & 963 two 'The Rippler' penny slot machine'.
The link is:
http://www.staceyauction.com/catalogue. ... ction=8888
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Re: Joe Pettitt Collection - Wednesday 26 May 2010
The Snap's genuine enough, but I'd guess that the Ripplers are repros... so when is a Rippler not a Rippler
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Re: Joe Pettitt Collection - Wednesday 26 May 2010
It's become so that I just don't trust a Rippler for sale.
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Re: Joe Pettitt Collection - Wednesday 26 May 2010
(http://www.melright.com/bryans)Melvyn Wright wrote: In the 90s, a collector obtained some surplus Rippler parts and castings from the Bryans factory and set about making a small run of reproduction machines. The quality of these was very good, and all but indistinguishable from the originals (apart from the age of course).
These reproductions are now becoming just as collectable as the original Ripplers. Although they weren't made at the Bryans factory, they do contain some original Bryans parts.
I believe that collector was either Joe Pettitt or a friend of his. They've been rippling out of Essex ever since.
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eBay at its best
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Now we all know that 99 out of a 100 Bryans Ripplers aren't errrrr ..... how can I put it ...... errrrr ....... Bryans Ripplers, because they are let's pretend ones
So they are neither Bryans nor are they Ripplers. However we now have an additional, entertaining way of describing a copy ...............
" a rare re-production" ........... A what?
Now we all know that 99 out of a 100 Bryans Ripplers aren't errrrr ..... how can I put it ...... errrrr ....... Bryans Ripplers, because they are let's pretend ones
So they are neither Bryans nor are they Ripplers. However we now have an additional, entertaining way of describing a copy ...............
" a rare re-production" ........... A what?
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