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Issue: 1978 October 045

Coin Slot Magazine - #045 - 1978 - October [International Arcade Museum]
So what are we looking for based on the picture?
It would
appear that we are looking for a 5-way White Manufacturing Com
pany floor machine made around 1904.
Some background is in
order here.
There are quite a number of White floor machines around; ex
amples known are OWL, UNO, JUDGE, late models of the CHI
CAGO RIDGE, OOM-PALL, AMERICAN BEAUTY and others.
We already know that White machines practically duplicate Berger
machines, only there's more of them and they're later.
where knowledge comes in.
That's
The Chicago-based Paul E. Berger
Manufacturing Company of the 1890s sold out to the White Man
ufacturing Company in 1902, with White continuing to produce
the Berger machines while adding a lot of their own. Unmistakable
Berger-White characteristics are large coin heads and elaborate
curved cast handles.
The biggest clue of all to the Berger-White
origin of the machine in the picture is the center position coin
head, a location pioneered on the Berger electric machines and
carried forward by White on a number of machines in its all me
chanical line.
Not only that, the side-crank coin head is a Berger
patent, used by White.
Now comes the dating; Berger never made a machine that looked
like this one, so the model is pure White. In 1902 and 1903 White
was up to its ears getting the original Berger machines into pro
duction so it wasn't until late 1903 or 1904 that White really got
rolling on its own line.
The machine in the picture is so clever
and original we must assume it wasn't the first of the new White
machines, therefore, judging production to be 1904 or even later.
As for the machine itself; it's a marvel. The wheel is completely
different than anything else in the floor machine line, although
the coin head and play handle are straight out of the White OWL
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Coin Slot Magazine - #045 - 1978 - October [International Arcade Museum]
As long as we are fooling around with ideas, let's come up with
a theoretical machine name.
The clue is probably the coinage.
It appears that the machine is 5-way nickel play as the five coin
slots are all the same size.
The payout coin tracks at the bottom
are probably for the color payouts, with black or red spitting out a
dime, with the other colors paying a quarter, half or silver dollar,
accounting for the payouts on all five colors.
That means the
location had to lead the machine with the payout coins to put it
out
The larger coins solved the problem of high payouts with
a single coin rather than trying to pump out a bunch of nickels
the high risk of jams. The biggest coin-therefore the big attraction
was the one dollar piece, so for my money the possible machine
name
that
comes
to
mind
is the White SILVER
DOLLAR.
I almost hate to drop this last clue to where this machine might
be as Tve harbored my own dream of finding it.
But there's no
point in keeping everything to myself, and I haven't done a thing
to track this machine down.
So it's all yours, readers:
the old
picture was taken in Leadville, Colorado.
FOR SALE
SPRINGS duplicated - set (7) Mills payouts $12; set (5) hammer $5; Clock
to Mechanism (1930's) $2. AH prices ppd. RICK LEE - P.O. Box 105 - Lin
coln, MA 01773.
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Large catalog offers the world's largest selection of coin-operated music boxes,
nickelodeon pianos, orchestrions. Also antique honoographs, jukeboxes, cir
cus organs. $3.00 per copy; $15 for next six issues. Satisfaction guaranteed
Visit us when you are in California. Huge showroom contains a wonderland
of items, including many slot machines. Nice selection of Mills, Caille, Jen
nings, Watling, etc., usually on hand for sale over the counter. Open Wed.
thru Sat. 9:00 to 4:00. Located 15 minutes south of Disneyland. American
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http for early Mills Goose-neck. Fits all early makes. Stainless
steel exact original or chrome plaited. $18.95 ea. p.p. Al Shriber, 8951
International Galleries, 1802-CS Kettering, Irvine, California 92714.
714-754-1777.
jason
Aurora N., Seattle, WA 98103.
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