Coin Slot Magazine - #081 - 1981 - November [International Arcade Museum]
as it doesn't have the small owl logo device that appeared on the
Dear Editor,
Enclosed are pictures of three slot machines that I recently
later Bell-O-Matic machines.
was able to buy.
Photo #1 is a Mills Hi-top "777" machine with a mystery
pay-out
Photo #2 has no identifying names or other markings. The
jackpot glass has been painted over with black paint and the
works seem to be "Mills".
Photo #3 is a Mills FOK with a mint vending front. I cannot
find a serial number on it There is a white tag on the back that
says "serial number", but it has faded out.
Your usual interesting comments will be appreciated.
Very truly yours,
Albert M. Johnson
Dear Mr. Johnson,
Looking for our "usual interesting comments**, eh Yt
gottem! When we get nicepictures like yours (sure, they*re color
Polaroid and dark — but we try hard so we should get
something in reproduction) we get all inspired to put an answer
together.
Your first picture is the classic Mills "Hightop". If any
machine characterizes the "Hightop'* line it's the Mills 21.
Somepeople call it the "7-7-7", butaddthoseupandyou getthe
machine name: 21. It took us a while to get this basic Bell into
the "100 Most Collectible Slot Machines" price guide series,
but you'll find it in Volume 3, now at the printer. We also
checked the galley proofs of the book— it has thousands of
serial numbers — andfind that the Mills 21 had serials in the
569,000 to 600,000 range and was made by Mills in Chicago
from 1949 through 1951. Later, it was continued inproduction
by Bell-O-Matic in Reno, although yours is Chicago production
Incidentally, Coin Slot Guide No. 6 for the Mills 21 is
expresslyfor this machine and contemporary Mills "Hightops".
Your second machine is not a Mills. It looks like a Mills
"Hightop" once you get inside the cabinet (and it's highly
possible that an original Mills mechanism has been substituted
for the original) but it is actually a Japanese Sega copy of the
Mills "Hightop" series. It looks like a Sega BONANZA to us,
but with the name missing it's hard to tell That Coin Slot
Guide No. 6 will also do wellfor the Sega machines, but you*ve
got to go on your own for the cabinet as the guide sticks strictly
to the "Hightops".
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