Allied/Victory/Conquerors Flags

[jingle]

this is what it should look like
i dug this picture out of my pc
when i seen these on ebay
this machine is nr 100 years old
can you see the difference

[aristomatic]

Topic moved & merged - Site Admin.

http://coinopcollectorforum.com/viewtop ... f=2&t=3908

[gameswat]

Nice machine though for such an early beast is very over restored, especially with that brand new background baize. And the patched in wood wasn't done well, by the lock is terrible, looks like fir or something?

[arrgee]

Interesting reply from Freddy Bailey:

Al,
Your machine was made in 1913 by Bill Thompson, his company was called The Coin Operating Company based in Birmingham, the original machine was called AllieI Flags, but after World War I he called it the Concoring Flags, or the Victory Flags, prior to World War I The German company Jentzsch & Meer started a law suite over copyright, but when the first World War broke out in 1914, the law suite could not go ahead and Thompson carried on making copies of the German machines including the popular Clown model. Bill Thompson died in 1939.

Your machine unfortunately is not very collectable here in the States, in Europe it would bring around $1,200-$1.700 if it is totally original, I would suggest you contact The Gauselmann Museum in Germany, they may be interested, they have about 700 wall machines in their collection.
Freddy Bailey
The Official British Coin Machine Historian

[gameswat]

I've never seen these claimed as so early. Was going to do some more research into these anyway as have a Conquering Flags to restore.

[arrgee]

It will be interesting to see what your research comes up with GW. No doubt you will be posting your progress on the Flags machine restoration

I've never seen these claimed as so early

I have dug this out of my hard drive, been sitting there since 2007, when I saw it. It was advertised as being made in 1916 by the Automatic Novelty Co

[sweetmeats]

The machine shown by Arrgee is Allied Flags. I agree with both the date and manufacturer. The third similar machine, and the most complicated, is called the Conquerors' Flags (picture added below). This has parts similar to Handan-I machines, so may have been made by them?

[gameswat]

A few Conquerors' Flags mech photos showing the complexity.

[arrgee]

Very nice example Sweetmeats
I see the actual catching cup has what looks like a Bulldog motif, I wonder whether this is a WW1 machine with the motif serving as an analogy of the British Bulldog fighting spirit and aggression that this fellow has always had.
"over the top chaps! British Bulldog spirit - tally hoo!"

[coppinpr]

It was advertised as being made in 1916 by the Automatic Novelty Co

It couldn't have been made in 1916, it does not have the Japanese flag which disappears from the "flags of the allies" by late 1916 (although technically they stayed in the war till the end) but, more importantly, it does have the American flag who did not join the war till 1917.

[gameswat]

Sweetmeets, I recently found the Patent for the Flags variation of this game you posted, and definitely by Handan-Ni in 1915, as invented by the same man as the Domino, Jon Jofeh. In fact on reading the Patent description it covers both this Flags game and the Handan-Ni Domino. And of course the top half of both machines is identical.


https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publica ... cale=en_EP

[paulbohlmann]

Hi,
does anybody knows what's on these cards left and right from the catcher? Does perhaps someone got copies or good pictures of them?

Thanks and regards Marco

[pennymachines]

I'm sure somebody here must have one they could photograph.
Going from this fuzzy internet image, the first card says,

THE
VICTORY
FLAG
PATRIOTIC
AMUSEMENT
MACHINE
3 BALLS
MADE IN BRITAIN

And the second card is headed, "INSTRUCTIONS"...

[rivierakid]

Hi, I thought forum members might be interested that I've put my Conquerors Flag machine on ebay. I've owned it for more than 10 years but have seen this machine appear on forum posts previously (identified by the missing playfield pin), so the machine may be known to some of you. Would be great if any forum members are interested, if so feel free to drop me a private message.

[coppinpr]

Topic moved & merged- Site Admin.

https://www.ebay.de/itm/Conquerors-Flag ... 635-2958-0