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Issue: 1982 December V8 N4

Coin Slot Magazine - #V8N4 - 1982 - December [International Arcade Museum]
COIN SLOT GUIDE NO. 20
Mills Bell-OMatic FOUR CROWN and STAN
DARD HIGHTOP. Including a guide to the
THREE CROWN, JACKPOT, TWIN, OWL,
FOUR REEL STANDARD, and other Mills
Bell-O-Matic Hightops produced between
1953 and 1961, and the Sega Hightop and
mechanical Bell machines produced between
1959 and 1970.
Stock No. DMB20
$6.95
COIN SLOT GUIDE NO. 21
Sittman & Pitt/Monarch/Reliance/Mills/Caille
MODEIVRELIANCE/VICTOR/DRAW POKER
/FLORADORA. Including a guide to the Ideal
CARD EXHIBITING MACHINES; Sittman &
Pitt Nafew, Monarch and Holtz LITTLE
MODEL CARD MACHINE, BROWNIE and
DRAW POKER; Reliance, Clune and Mills
a guide to the Mills OPERATOR BELL, IL
LUSION, COUNTER O.K VENDOR, TOTAL
IZER, FRONT O.K., CLUB AMUSER and
other standard and specialty Mills Bell ma
chines with serials40,000 through 139,000,
as well as contemporary Watling and Jennings
Bell machines that copied or utilized Mills
mechanisms.
Stock No. DMB24
Buckley CRISSCROSS and JACKPOT BELLE
Including aguidetothe Buckley/Mills BLUE
FRONT, BROWN FRONT, BLACK CHERRY
and GOLDEN FALLS revamps, Buckley JACK
POT BELLE, STANDARD CRISS CROSS,
EXTRA AWARD CRISSCROSS, DIXIE, BINGO,
BONANZA and other Buckley revamps and
Bell machines produced between 1945 and
RELIANCE and VICTOR, Mills KING DODO,
YOU'RE NEXT, FLORADORAand PEERLESS,
Fey, Foley, Mills, Caille and Watling DRAW
POKER and other Drop Card Machines pro
duced between 1890 and 1934.
Stock No. DMB21
$6.95
COIN SLOT GUIDE NO. 22
Yale YALE WONDER CLOCK Including a
guide to the Yale WON DER CLOCK, ADVER-
TISING AND DISCOUNT MACHINE and
AUTOMATIC CASHIER AND DISCOUNT
MACHINE; Almy AUTOMATIC CASHIER AND
DISCOUNT MACHINE and StarSTARTRADE
REGISTER.
Stock No. DMB22
$6.95
COIN SLOT GUIDE NO. 23
CHICAGO RIDGE, OOM PAUL, and AMER
ICAN BEAUTY. Including a guide to the
various electric Automatic Color Wheel floor
model automatic payout slot machines made
by Berger, Specialty Manufacturing, Michigan,
Amusement, Rosenfield, Cowper, T.J. Nertney,
Marshfield, Great Eastern and White between
1894 and 1905.
Stock No. DMB23
$6.95
COIN SLOT GUIDE NO. 24
Mills 1918-1925 OPERATOR BELL, COUN
TER O.K VENDOR and FRONT O.K Including
$6.95
COIN SLOT GUIDE NO. 25
1964.
Stock No. DMB25
$6.95
COIN SLOT GUIDE NO. 26
Evans LUCKY LUCRE and CASINO BELLS.
Including a guide to the ROYAL LUCRE,
CASINO BELLSR., CASINO BELL JR., JUM
BLED BARS, CLUB CASINO BELL SR.,
BONANZA, BLACK DIAMOND and other
Evans Console Bells produced between
1938 and 1954.
Stock No. DMB26
$6.95
COIN SLOT GUIDE NO. 27
Buckley DIGGER. Including a guide to the
DELUXE DIGGER, CHICAGO, JEWEL BOX,
TREASURE ISLAND and other Buckley Dig
gers.
Stock No. DMB27
$6.95
COIN SLOT GUIDE NO. 28
Canda/Mills/Caille
PERFECTION/GOOD
LUCK, PERFECTION/UPRIGHT. Including
a guide to the Canda CARD MACHINE,
UPRIGHT FrARO, EXCELSIOR, JUMBO,
JUMBO GIANT, SKYSCRAPER: Mills LITTLE
PERFECTION, BEN FRANKLIN, THE JUMBO;
Caille BANKER, QUINTETTE; Watling PER
FECTION; Kelley COUNTER PERFECTION
andTHEKELLEY.
Stock No. DMB28
$6.95
COIN SLOT GUIDE NO. 29
Mills LIBERTY BELL/OPERATOR BELL In
cluding a guide to the Mills SPECIAL GUM
VENDOR, NO. A LIBERTY BELL, NO. A
OPERATOR BELL, AUTOMATIC GUM VEN
DOR, COUNTER O.K VENDOR, FLOOR
O.K. GUM VENDOR and other Mills Bell
machines with serials 100 through 32,000,
as well as contemporary Watling, Burnham
and Industry Industry Novelty "Iron Case"
Bells and revamps.
Stock No. DMB29
$6.95
COIN SLOT GUIDE NO. 30
Evans EVANS RACES and EVANS LONG
SHOT RACES. Including a guide to the
FREE PLAY EVANS RACES, NEW EVANS
RACES, FREE PLAY CONVERTIBLE EVANS
RACES and other Evans Race Machines
produced between 1947 and 1954.
Stock No. DMB30
$6.95
COIN SLOT GUIDE NO. 31
Jennings TODAY. Including a guide to the
TODAY JACKPOT, BASEBALL, electric IM
PROVED TODAY and ELECTROVENDOR.
Stock No. DMB31
$6.95
COIN SLOT GUIDE NO. 32
Buckley POINTMAKER/SAFARI. Including
a guide to the Buckley Manufacturing Com
pany CRISS CROSS ELECTRONIC POINT-
MAKER, SAFARI ELECTRONIC POINT-
MAKER and GAME OF SKILL
Stock No. DMB32
$6.95
COIN SLOT GUIDE NO. 33
Keeney SUPER BELL. Including a guide to
the SUPER BELL MINT VENDOR, TWO-
WAY SUPER BELL and FOUR-WAY SUPER
BELL
Stock No. DMB33
$6.95
COIN SLOT GUIDE NO. 34
Superior RACES. Including a guide to the
Superior Confection Company RACES GOLD
AWARD, RACES BELL, RACES VENDOR,
DOG RACES and Buckley Manufacturing
Company SUPERIOR RACERS, SUPERIOR
RACERS BELL SUPERIORDOG RACERS
Stock No. DMB34
$6.95
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Coin Slot Magazine - #V8N4 - 1982 - December [International Arcade Museum]
Vintage
Collectibles
ou want to start
box collection?
he majority of
| jukebox collectors star
I out like myself. Whatever
turned up was a new addition to the
collection. The limitations to the col
lection were the amount of space
available, and whether or not you
liked that particular brand and mod
el. Price never was m uch of a factor,
since many collectors of the mid-
1970s were the only collector in
their area Much like the transition
from silver coins to the clad coins in
1965, there were times of plenty
progressing to times of scarcity.
The majority of pre-1955 jukeboxes
are now progressing to times of
scarcity. The term, "paying through
the nose" now has some validity,
and a novice collector today must
give careful though before investing
hundreds, if not thousands, of dol
lars for an individual machine. I
started a few years later, when the
easy finds in an operator's back
room had been emptied. I tracked
down individual owners, one by one,
and did not have the opportunity to
pick which, or how many. In many
cases I had to pay their asking
price, or go without. The market had
become a sellers' market. That is
the situation today— a sellers' mar
ket. Possibly the following advice
may help an interested novice to
discover the direction needed to
pursue the jukebox collecting hobby
of today.
Manufacturers
my manufacturers exist
machlnes^Dperated by^Tcoin to
play a record. I am interested only
DECEMBER 1982
facturer does make a difference as
far as mechanical design is con
those that I would consider a juke
cerned, and what problems a machine
developed over an extended lifetime
of operation.
The three most common manufac
box. The companies that are the
turers are Wurlitzer, Rockola and
in the machines that are suitable
for 78 or 45 RPM records, and only
most collected are: Wurlitzer, Rock-
ola, Capehart, Packard, Gables,
Seeburg, AMI and Mills, roughly in
that order of preference.
Why is manufacturer
important?
Some brands have a better mech
anical and electrical design. Cape-
hart, Gables and Mills are not the
machines that a novice would want
to start on repairing without some
idea of how a jukebox operates.
The majority of these machines are
scarce, making parts difficult to lo
cate. Wurlitzer, Rockola, Packard,
Seeburg and AMI models are better
designed pieces of equipment Sales
were reasonably high on most mod
els, so parts are available. If you
have seen an unrestored Mills, Cape-
hart or Gables jukebox, look inside
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Suble understanding how to
fast these mechanisms. Manu
Can you imagine how they operate
today? Even the jukebox mechanics
of the late 1920s and early 1930s
Seeburg in the 1940s. Their mech
anics are all basically good and
reliable. The electrical design is
equally good. Rockola and Seeburg
jukeboxes appear to take the wear
and tear better than Wurlitzera This
may be due to the extended use of
the Wurlitzers, but I have fewer pro
blems with the mechanism being
worn in the Rockola and Seeburg
designed machines. The amazing
machine is the AMI with its simple
system of operation. Packards rate
much like the AMI, but are more
scarce.
Mills, Capehart and Gables are
sometimes frustrating machines.
There are numerous places for prob
lems and only a small minority of col
lectors have knowledge of repair
procedurea It is also amazing that,
as many problems as these machines
presented the early operators, any
exist today at all. They were not
only heavy, but the mechanical de
signs were all primitive with barely
adequate sound quality. The later
Mills machines, of the 1940s, were
a more tolerable machine, but again
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