_ ,.ales of the Hunt-
Hosted by Jack Freund
This issue features submissions from Jim and Merlyn Collings from Brevard, North Carolina
as well as from Herb Weinfield, Northbrook Illinois.
Let's start with Jim and Merlyn's tale. It begins
on a Saturday afternoon. Can you believe that
this find was still there, waiting to be found, on
a Saturday AFTERNOON!!!
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A couple of years ago Merlyn and I attended the
annual sidewalk antique show in Hendersonville,
North Carolina. It was a very hot, sunny Satur-
day afternoon in July and difficult to spot "trea-
sures". We did, however, spot a bright yellow ob-
ject while crossing the street. Merlyn exclaimed,
"Jimmy, it's a Pulver machine! ". I said, "I've
never seen a yellow one before". While looking
the machine over, we noticed there was a red
plastic Woody Woodpecker puppet inside the
machine. My first thought was ... Woody needed
a new home! Merlyn concurred. The seller was
very generous with his price and we brought our
"find " home.
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Pulver was about to go
out of business in 1954
and may have used any
and all available parts,
resulting in this varia-
tion. Woody and the
mechanism work like
a charm and we enjoy
him very much .
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CHEWING GUM
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Editor's note: It is very
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possible that this cabi-
net came from the fac-
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tory with smooth yel-
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low paint. I have a RED
painted Pulver that has
SMOOTH red paint, not
Photo 2
wrinkle paint. Woody
Woodpecker or the Clown puppet are the cor-
rect puppets for the painted cabinet Pulvers and
the correct color of the gum tubes is lime green,
not red.
We feel the machine could be new old stock.
It has a very smooth painted finish, unlike the
painted "crinkle" surfaces on the Pulvers made
in the 50's. The inside of the machine, including
the back door, is silver, unlike the usual black
color. The outside lettering and the window
grid are finished in black. The lettering above
the coin entry says: MINTS/GUM in black (Pho-
to 1). Usually this reads MINT/SPICE or TOO
CHOOS/GUM.
The really unusual thing about our "Find" is the
gum mouth, or gum cup. It is YELLOW PORCE-
LAIN, held by two porcelain rivets! (Photo2). When
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