Coin Slot Magazine - #071 - 1981 - January [International Arcade Museum]
We can answer one question in your letter. Is it worth
repairing? Of course it is! An antique slot is a treasure, and a lot
of fun, and unless half the machine is missing it is readily
repairable or can be restored. It might cost a little if you have
someone else do the work, but the investment is worth it. Some
restorers advertise in The Coin Slot.
But ifyou want afast identification, send us some pictures and
we'll tell you which volume of "100 Most Collectible Slots..."
and which Coin Slot Guide to get.
Editor
LETTERS
TO
Dear Editor,
I have just received your book "The Coin Slot - Guide 1". The
book is a great help to me on the Mills Jewel High Top Slot
machine that I have recently purchased. I am enclosing a picture
of it in hopes that you might furnish me further information on
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it. The serial number is 544,566.
Also, I would like to purchase your book entitled "Illustrated
Price Guide
to
the One
Hundred
Most Collectible Slot
Machines - Volume II," with special 35 page section devoted to
all the state laws pertaining to private ownership and sales of
antique slots.
Thank you,
Dear Editor,
Just a few lines to thank you for publishing my letter and
Gary L. Teeter
pictures in my quest for parts for a twin play Challenger. I want
you to know that I really appreciate your doing so.
You have a fine magazine and please let me know when my
subscription runs out and I'll guarantee you that you will have a
renewal.
I have received letters from two people already regarding the
letter and from the one I may be able to get the front casting.
I certainly like your policy of publishing the prices from the
various auctions, which gives the collectors some idea as to
which way the value of the machines is going.
Thanks again, and keep up the good work, I am.
Sincerely yours,
Gus Schoppman
Dear Editor,
We have a 5 cent slot machine made by Mills Novelty
Company and are unable to get any information on it such as
Dear Gary,
year made, worth, repairing etc.
Thanks for the kind words about Coin Slot Guide No. 1, and
Can you help?
Sincerely,
we're glad it
Beverly Wright
"Hightop".
was a great help
with your Mills JEWEL
You ask for further information about your jewel of a
Dear Beverly;
It's not only hard to identify an antique slot machinefrom the
description "5c made by Mills"; it's impossible. The Mills
Novelty Company was in businessfrom 1897 through the 1950s
and into the present if you count the Mills Bell-O-Matic
Company in Nevada and Illinois. That's 83 years of slot
machines and almost a million of them, and at least halfofthem
were 5c machines.
There are two ways to go about this. First, ifyou're into slots
you'll want to get the "100 Most Collectible . . ." price guides
that identify and describe a wide variety ofantique slots. Three
JEWEL, for that's exactly what it is. Many of these machines
were later revamped or repainted, but yours is absolutely
beautiful in its original maroon cabinet with Royal Blue trim. If
you'd like to learn more, you'll want volume 1 of the "An
Illustrated Price
Guide to
the
100 Most Collectible Slot
Machines" because that's where the machine is completely
described.
Oh, and thanks for the serial number and picture.
The Editor.
Dear Editor,
volumes (the third will be out in about 90 days) cover most
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book? Can you tell me where I can find a repair manual for this
or similar machines? Thanks for your help.
Very truly yours,
J. Thomas
JANUARY, 1981
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