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Re: Brooklands machine on Facebook

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treefrog wrote: Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:16 pm There was a Brooklands from a seller in Cornwall who had the below machine advertised on Facebook and eBay for the last 6 months. I think it has finally sold, but looked tidy for £500... I could not understand why it never went quicker.

It never went quicker because I couldn't find a courier that would go to bl***y Cornwall!
I was ready to buy it at the bargain price of £600.
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Re: Brooklands machine on Facebook

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Try Allan at Amicus, he's collected one for me from Cornwall before.
That was a couple of year ago, though.
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Re: Brooklands machine on Facebook

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I use Allan all the time.
He won't go near Cornwall! Perhaps something put him off?
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Re: Brooklands machine on Facebook

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brigham wrote: Wed Feb 03, 2021 3:22 pm Perhaps something put him off?
It's a long way!
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Re: Boland Black Beauty, Screen Stars, Brooklands, White City...

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I was going to say £500-600 sounds pricey for a Boland Brooklands, until I recalled the one at Hansons last month.
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Re: Boland Black Beauty, Screen Stars, Brooklands, White City...

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I think you're still living in 2005. I have not seen a good Brooklands go for less that £600 and currently prices are high. The rough green one on the previous page is a Jennings conversion, but very poor condition. Has unusual strips below......but this I would not pay half what the seller is asking due to condition.....
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Re: Boland Black Beauty, Screen Stars, Brooklands, White City...

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treefrog wrote: Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:56 pm I think you're still living in 2005
1905, if you don't mind. :dapper:
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Boland Bomber Command

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HI ALL,
just finished tidying up this machine from a recent auction. Been after this one for a while. Nothing much wrong with it, works fine - all pretty much original. I had to stabilise the paintwork with a couple of coats of clear varnish. This seems to have done the trick. The mech was out of line with the payout window, but was easily dealt with. All in all a nice addition I think to my now quite large W.W.2 collection.
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Re: Boland Bomber Command

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My Tom Boland collection remains a 'gang of one'.
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Re: Boland Black Beauty, Screen Stars, Brooklands, White City...

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off-topic I know but relevant to the previous post, I came across this WW2 based machine Ive never seen before while researching "rolling road " type machines. The goal was to "Bomb Tokyo off the map" something the USAF just about achieved
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Re: Boland Black Beauty, Screen Stars, Brooklands, White City...

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Hello all
Well I have finally got part way to owning a Bolands Single reel White City in the form of the case, but I am on the lookout for a suitable mech for it? hoping someone out there may have a mech as the cases tented to dissolve in a cloud of worm dust :)
Best regards from the Badlands of the Herts/Essex border:)
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Guilt complex

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Back in the 1970s, john t peterson was grabbing up all the English imported coin-ops on the west coast of America.
I was doing the same thing on the east coast.
I had no idea what I was buying except I found they were lots of fun and I cherry picked what I considered to be the most desirable.
One of the machines I acquired was a "Movie Star" slot... I had never seen a comparable machine made in the U.S.A.

Fast forward to 2005 and slot machines had started to command high prices. I sold my Movie slot to someone in Hollywood California for a tad over $2000.00. (my cost $40.00)... not bad for a "little old country boy".

Recently, I checked the internet and find that my machine was likely made by BOLAND (England).
I do remember that my machine had a wooden case.
I am unable to find a Boland movie star slot with a wooden case in the 1970s time frame.

Your thoughts ???? roger :tarah:..................GUILT COMPLEX ??? Yeaaa
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Re: Guilt complex

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Like this Screen Stars?

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Or this Film Stars?

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$40 to $2,000 was some mark up!
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Re: Guilt complex

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If a short straight bandit handle is a 'dagger handle', what is the style called as depicted in the above 'film stars' bandit?....a nearly straight but kinky one? [ a serious question actually]
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Re: Guilt complex

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With Boland I would suspect "a cheap one" or "the first one that came to hand" or perhaps "a large water pipe stopcock handle I bought 50 of cheap from a bloke at the water board".
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Re: Guilt complex

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13rebel wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 7:38 pm If a short straight bandit handle is a 'dagger handle', what is the style called as depicted in the above 'film stars' bandit?....a nearly straight but kinky one? [ a serious question actually]
A 30 year old parts catalogue I have calls the pressed steel versions "Gooseneck handle" and the later cast dagger style "Black Cherry handle - Sword type" .
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Re: Guilt complex

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Mr. P indicated that my Movie Star slot had one hefty markup from my cost of $40 to my selling price $ 2000.00.
Yes indeed, by my calculations, that's a little over a 10 percent profit.

And yes, the machine marked "Your Favorites" is likely my machine or one very similar. roger :tarah:
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Re: Guilt complex

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This one, sold in California last year as a, "Mills Prototype", is up again at Donley Auctions on the 19th with an estimate of $1,400 - $3,700. Sounds ambitious to me. It's now catalogued as a "Mills 50 Cent Film Stars Slot Machine"...
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Re: Guilt complex

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Thanks chaps. A gooseneck stopcock handle it is then.
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Re: Boland Black Beauty, Screen Stars, Brooklands, White City...

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Another footballer... spotted on Craigslist.
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