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CoUector's Guide to Vintage Coin Machines
(2nd edition with revised priceguide) by Dick Bueschel.
Chapters on scales, vending, arcade, slots jukes, pins and stimulators. Attractive book,
well researched and illustrated, featuring 700 machines all in colour.
Hardback, 220 pages. Price: £32.40
Vintage Trade Stimulators and Counter Games by Dick Bueschel.
Detailed descriptions of the machines, dates, manufacturer production data, plus over
800 pictures, a price guide and a wealth of historical context, will make you an instant
ex1 ert on these previously under-represented coin-ops.
Hardback, 264 pages, 792 colour, 24 b/w photos. Price: £29.50
Collector's Treasury of Antique Slot Machines from Contemporary Advertising
(1925-1950) by Peter Dach.
This fat volume makes an excellent collector's source book. It is pa.eked with hundreds
of pictorial slot machine advertisements reproduced from The Billboard (the foremost
American weekly trade paper) from 1920-1950 of one arm bandits, gambling macltin.es,
console machines, trade stirnulators, pinball machfoes, novelty vending machines, etc.
Hardback, 479 pages, b/w. Price: £25
Slot Machin es of Y cstcryear - Mills of tbc Thirties Operator's Companion.
The spirit of lhe Mills Novelty Company in the hectic Thirties is conveyed in their
product brochures, service literature, and in editorial matter from Spinning Reels (the
company's own trade joumal), together with press releases, promotional literature,
advertising flyers etc. in The Billboard trade magazine. Excellent source book.
Hardback, 192 pages, b/w. Price: £15
Slot Machines of Yesteryear - Mills of the Forties Operator's Companion.
A source book reproducing a wealth of diverse material from the period: service
ma.nuals, parts lists, press releases, promotional literature, advertising flyers etc. tracing
the progress of Mills Novelty Company's machines during the WW 11-interrupted decade
ofthe Forties. Hardback, 192 pages, blw. Price: £15
Slot Machines of Yesteryear - Watling Operator's Companion.
This volume captures Watling Manufacturing Company's full range from scales to
bandits in catalogues, brochures, line folders, broadsides and service data, original
patent and mock-up photos of the ROL-A-TOR line, artists' preparatory airbrush
renderings for advertising and promotional material and Watling f arnily photos and
correspondence. Plenty oflegendary anecdotes and well~informed context in the
accompanying commentary. Hardback, 192 pages, b/w. Price: £15
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