Coin Slot Magazine - #075 - 1981 - May [International Arcade Museum]
Editor's
Statement
Rosanna Harris
Recently we wrote about the fact that there are many
reproduction machines creeping into the market in some
of the states. In our opinion the reproduction machines are
a snare for the unwary buyer and we will continue to write
about and expose them until they are no longer in the
general
market or until they are specifically and
you; it ultimately will.
We are very grateful to Gil for coming forward and
honestly assessing the situation. Surely his is not a lone
voice.
un-
We are still in need of your valuable input for defining an
mistakenly identified as REPRODUCTIONS. The first letter
"antique slot machine." If we had such a definition which
in our "Letters to the Editor" section shows that we are not
was universally accepted, perhaps the bill in Montana
alone in our opinion. We can only hope to dissuade the
would not have found its way to defeat. It seems that one of
manufacture and sale of the reproduction machines if
the senators feels that allowing an individual to collect and
more of the collectors take the attitude that Gil has taken.
display an "antique slot machine" will lead the way to
Don't fall into the laissez faire syndrom. It could have an
"legalized gambling." We know that a collector is a far cry
eventual effect on you. How many of you have a BLACK
from the accepted definition of a gambler and that an "an
CHERRY, GOLDEN
tique
FALLS, WAR EAGLE or GOLDEN
slot
machine"
is
miles
apart from
the
electro
NUGGET in your collections? Do you want your original
mechanical machines which are currently used in Nevada
machines to be placed at an auction with similar machines
and Atlantic City. No one is going to write the definition for
that incorporate plastic parts and have been manufac
us. You, the collectors, are the experts. You collectively
tured not in the thirties and forties but in the eighties?
should be the ones who define ANTIQUE SLOT MACHINE
Don't stand back and erroneously feel that it won't touch
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THE COIN Arcade
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May 1981
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