Coin Slot Magazine - #024 - 1977 - January [International Arcade Museum]
not only managed to survive, but even thrived and remained popular
through
the
late
forties.
wagon,
Many
manufacturers jumped
band
quickly.
This is one of the reasons many manufacturers are not
very well known.
easier to tool
but unfortunately
be
fell
off just as
One of the major reasons was that it was much
up for a
non-payout machine as opposed to the
more intricate payout device.
to
many
quickly
onto the
I
consider a true trade stimulator
non-payout and a slot machine to be payout with a few
exceptions.
These exceptions are the early pieces which did not
depend on a slide to produce a payout.
A few examples are the
Cowper, Cracker Jack, the Rock-O-La, 3-4-and 5 Jacks, the Fortuna
the Mecca, the two door banks, 3 for 1, etc.
In
the
last
twenty
years
or
belongs to the slot machine.
so,
the
overwhelming
popularity
Trade stimulators have not held
their own in the rapidly rising coin machine market.
They have
been overlooked and scorned by the majority of collectors because
they don't payout.
begun to change.
However, in the last six months all this has
The early and unusual trade stimulators have *
started to command respectable prices.
As the prices for payout
machines continue to escalate and get beyond the pocket book
of beginning collectors,
or those who don't have much money,
the overlooked, undervalued trade stimulator will be
Listed
below
are
a
few
manufacturers
of
Trade
discovered.
Stimulators.
1. Duval Mfg. Co.
13.
Field Mfg.
2. Groetchen Tool & Die
14.
Bluebird
3. Bally Mfg. Co.
15.
16.
4. O.D. Jennings Co.
5.
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6. Seeburg Mfg. Co.
7.
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10.
Exhibit Supply Co.
11. Victor Novelty Co.
Cowper
19.
20. Si.ckjyigCo.
21. H.C* Evans Co.
22.
Keeney&Sons.
23.
Mercury
12. D. Gottlieb & Co.
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