Coin Slot Magazine - #049 - 1979 - February [International Arcade Museum]
halfway across the country and offers you a "Mills Doctor Vibra
tor" for a song, you'll instantly have a very good idea of whether
to snap it up or not. Many of the machines pictured in these old
catalogs are ones that I have never personally seen, but would love
to have. As far as brochures go, we have one old Mills promotional
brochure that is an original and very rare that has 8Y2" x 11" color
pictures of the War Eagle and Super Bell machines. With some
thing like this, you can paint your machines exactly the way they
came from the factory with complete authenticity.
I could go on, but I think you get the general idea. Next month
I will discuss the most valuable resource aid of all, but very rarely
used. Meanwhile, happy reading!
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space to colSectors.
Ef you feel there is an issue concerning any area of coin machine col
lecting that you wish to "Sound Off" about, here's your chance.
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"WILL THE REAL SLOT MACHINE COLLECTOR, PLEASE STAND UP."
How can he? He exists only in his imagination. The tried and
true collector does not even exist any more. He is a thing of the
past Today, all of us are rapidly turning into dealers, opportun
ists, and investors. Why has this happened? What happened to the
true collector?
Typically, we all started with one machine-it was a lot of fun-
and we wanted more slots. We got to know a few dealers who
would sell us that much wanted machine. The dealer made money
on the sale to us, just as he should. This process was repeated
quite often, and we built a fairly nice collection. As we upgraded
this collection from High Tops to Rol-A—Tops, we all discovered
that the goin prices on our common machines had advanced sharp
ly in the year or so that we owned them, in other words, we all
made money when we unloaded these lesser machines.
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to realize that these machines were a fantastic investment. So, we
spent more time and effort trying to buy more of these fantastic
investments. As we got to know more dealers, we all saw that
there was money in these machines. We wanted to be a dealer and
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