Coin Slot Magazine - #023 - 1976 - December [International Arcade Museum]
Q. What is it?
It is a pinfield game that
looks like a Caille LITTLE DREAM or
an early Mills wooden TARGET, but
not quite. My guess is Caille.
California
A. There's a lot of confusion with these
coin
drop games,
both
in terms of
manufacturers and when they were
built.
to
Because the games were easy
manufacturer,
requiring
only
a
wooden box, brass pins, a glass plate
and some printed paper or a casting or
two, many of the smaller local pro
ducers made them in addition to the
larger manufacturers.
Most of them
were copies of the late Victorian coin drops, and particularly the Caille-
Richards games, and later the Caille LITTLE DREAM, or similar Mills ma
chines.
Virtually all of them had the 5/2/1/G/G/G/G/G/1/2/5 payout
schedule, with "G" for a stick of gum.
This is the OUR LEADER made by the Sloan Novelty and Manufacturing
Company in Philadelphia, first introduced in 1910.
double-diamond pinfield at the top.
You can tell by the
A very similar game, called LEA
DER, was made across town by the Banner Specialty Company of Phila
delphia in the early 1920's with a pinfield that had a straight-line hour
glass pattern.
Other producers made games called TARGET, LITTLE
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s apart. Often only the paper pro
and they are all almost impossible
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The cast aluminum
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DREAM, LEADER or their manufacturers name in the 1910-1930 period
manufacturers copied the metal cabinets to make a wide variety of games
similar to those made by Mills, Jennings and Exhibit.
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