Coin Slot Magazine - #082 - 1981 - December [International Arcade Museum]
Also I am looking for a back door for a Mills ELK and a
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handle starting lever for a Superior Confection Co. Goose
slot machine, and the one you picture has the original
neck. The handle has teeth or gears cast in the handle. The
cabinet style. You'llfind this machine described on page 51
starting lever must also have teeth.
ofthe Volume! "An Illustrated Price Guide to the 100 Most
The drawing is close, but not exact. The measurements are
exact.
Collectible Slot Machines", although the machine illustrated
in the book has the later cabinet and the "GABEL'S STAR"
glass, whereas yours has the earlier "THE STAR" glass.
The coin head is shown fairly well on page 51 in Volume 2,
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Guide to the 100 Most Collectible Slot Machines" in which
the Berger UNO and Berger/White DEWEY machines are
illustrated and described.
Incidentally,
the entire Automatic Machine &
Tool
Company line of floor machines—and the coin head
patents and data — will be detailed in Coin Slot Guide No.
65 which is in the works. But that doesn't help you much
Any information you can give me on any of the above will
now. Hopefully, some collector has an extra crank-style coin
be appreciated. Enjoy The Coin Slot
head in a 5-way model. If not, and a number of other
Thank you,
collectors need them, this is a perfectpiecefor reproduction.
John
That may be the way to go.
Congratulations, John,
Confection GOOSENECK lever, here's hoping our readers
You'vefound an early-production Automatic Machine &
Tool Company STAR, probably made between 1899 and
Kieckhefer at P.O. Box 2315, Prescott, AZ 86301.
1901. The missing coin head is of the side crank type,
The Editor
As for the back doorfor a Mills ELK, and the Superior
can come through for you. So ifany ofyou do, contact John
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