Coin Slot Magazine - #050 - 1979 - March [International Arcade Museum]
Letters to the Editor
(Address all comments about the Coin Slot to: Letters to the Edi
tor, c/o The Coin Slot, Box 612, Wheatridge, CO 80033.)
Gentlemen:
I am enclosing a photograph of a 19th century coin device
which might be of interest to you for your publication. The
coins are placed in at the top and follow a labyrinth course down
the metal slots to the coin repository. It was made in England.
Very sincerely,
Stanley Marcus, Dallas, Texas
Dear Stanley,
A very interesting machine, indeed.
The machine appears to be from the 1898-1904 period, and has
earmarks of the Harris patent in England. That might mean it was
made by Jacques, or Urry or some of the other leading British coin
machine makers of the period. There seems to be no indication
from past records that would suggest that it ever entered the
American market at that time. In fact, the Americans were very
choosy, preferring their own chance machines, with the English
machines left very much to themselves. I am assuming that this
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Sincerely,
Richard M. Bueschel
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