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Issue: 1976 December 023

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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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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Coin Slot Magazine - #023 - 1976 - December [International Arcade Museum]
PETER HflNSEN
1968 Big Bend Dr. • Des Plaines, Illinois
(312) 299-6213
60016
Callie upright 5 cent Detroit unrestored
$2350.00
Chicago Ridge upright made by Furger, rare and excellent machine
$3000.00
Mills 20th Century partly restored, needs clock
$2850.00
Mills Dewey Double with music 5 cent and 25 cent, super nice
$1400.00
5 cent Niagara upright - unrestored, needs wheel
$950.00
Mills Dewey parts & glasses & misc. & upright parts - I
may have what you need.
Seeburg G Orchestrion cabinet style 10 - instruments restored
$8500.00
Regina 27 inch Orchestral Oak style 4 mint
$4500.00
Encore Benjo 100% original & very nice plays fair. Large selection of rolls
Seeburg KT fully restored excellent machine
. .
$1500.00
$8700.00
1 cent Exhibit Knowledge is Power fortune teller
about 100,000 cards super restored
$1200.00
10 cent National 3rass Cash Registers $150.00 to $500.00 Misc. Cash Register parts.
FOR SALE
HoSchomb and Hoke pop corn machine floor moder with advertising revolving sign
$1800.00.
Pete Hansen, 1968 Big Bend Dr.f Des Plaines, III. 60016. Ph. (312) 299-
6213.
Early 1920 mutoscope arcade machine mystic screen fortune teller in excellent un
restored condition as is $1300.00.
Larry Lubliner, 434 West Melrose, Apt. No. W,
Chicago, III. 60657 or phone 477-9235.
Mills Castle front 10 cent pace comet.
Phil Balkan, 5860 Tobias Ave., Van Nuys, Ca.
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restorable $600.00.
Larry
West Melrose, Apt. 3W, Chicago, III. 60657.
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Holchomb and Hoke pop corn machine counter top model complete and unrestored,
nice, $1050.00.
Larry Lubliner, 434 West Melrose, Apt. 3W, Chicago, III. 60657
(312) 477-9235.
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