Coin Slot Magazine - #V8N5 - 1983 - January [International Arcade Museum]
Edition, An Illustrated Price Guide
to the 100 Most Collectible Slot Ma
chines, volume 1 with the prices for
last year. The current market is a bit
vertically to the right of the nickel
viewing window. The Mills trademark
soft, so you should subtract about
is on the right panel, but didn't Pace
make the COMET?
My problem is this: I need one of
15% from the prices quoted. We'd
your books, I think either Coin Slot
class your machine as "restored."
Guide 4 or 17, but I don't know
The Editor
which.
Volume 8, No. 5
Publisher and Editor
Enclosed is my check to
Rosanna B. Hams
cover costs and postage. Would
Managing Editor/Art Director
Debt Knight
you please send me the Coin Slot
Guide I need?
Historical Editor
Richard ML Bueschel
Yours truly,
Book Review Editor
David & Evans
Gib Sergeant
Dear Gib;
What you've got is a little bit of
this, and a little bit of that. Yes, the
machine is a Mills. It's the 1927
FRONT O.K., or "F.O.K." the 177557
serial number tips that off.
But, yes again, Pace did make the
COMET, and the front on your ma
chine is from the COMET VENDER
Contributing Authors
Stephen P. Atpert, David Bassitt,
Bay Ekiund, Robert Geddes,
Steve Gronowski, Marc Harrison,
Chuck Hawthorne, Russ Jensen,
Carol Kantor, tarry Lubliner,
Paul Olson, P.G. O'Neal,
Mike Pugliese, Art Reblitz,
Richard Reddock, Fred Ryan,
David Saul, Alan Sax, Rick Sen leuter,
Bill Whelan, Lee Williams
of 1934.
Foreign Contributing Author
Nic Costa
Somebody, somewhere, sometime
did a bait-and-switch. It's not entirely
unreasonable to assume that the
Where is the serial
number located?
Dear Editor;
Can you help me?? I am trying to
locate a front door for a Mills
OPERATOR BELL, 1910.
Also, where is the serial number
on this machine located?
Yours truly,
G. Navarro
The serial number is on the front,
centered, below the reels. But. . .
there were a lot of models of the
LIBERTY BELL, so you'll have to be
sure you've got the right one.
Probably your best bet is to get
Mills F.O.K. into a jackpot vending
machine as the parts are inter
changeable from Pace to Mills and
vice versa with a little fiddling. An
other posibility is that it was cobbled
up in recent years to make the
unique "Mills COMET' or"Pace F.O.K"
shown in your photograph.
As for Coin Slot Guides, if you
ming you'll need Guide No. 17 "Mills
1926-1931 Gooseneck Bell Ma
chines. " But, if you've got front prob
lems, you'll want Guide No. 4 "Pace
DELUXE / CHERRY / COMET /
ROCKET." Take your pick.
The Editor
right picture and drawings.
As for finding the front, try an ad in
The Coin Slot.
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Helping a novice
version, FOK, twin jackpots. The
Typesetting
Stephanie Schmidt
the middle 1930s to upgrade an old
Coin Slot Guide No. 29, which covers
the variety of these cast iron ma
chines, and then fit yours to the
Regards,
The Editor
Margaret lozzo
lash-up was done by an operator in
want to keep the mechanism hum
Dear "G;"
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