Coin Slot

Coin Slot Magazine - #023 - 1976 - December [International Arcade Museum]
Questions & Answers
By Dick Bueschel
Q. I've got a Caille TIGER, but I've never
seen anything else like it.
handle on
the side
It has the
rather than the
front. What is it?
New York
A. Fantastic!
A
side
handle
TIGER.
This is a machine that apparently has
never been cataloged, or at least it is
not shown in the dozen or so different
Caille catalogs available for the years
1902- 1912.
Rather than an early ma
chine it appears to be the end of the
line for Caille cast iron. There are rea
sons for this assumption.
The first single-reelers, made by Paupa & Hockriem, and later Mills, and
Caille, had the levers on the front.
center.
The original P & H ELK had it front
Later they all had them front right. With the success of the Mills
LIBERTY BELL, first introduced in 1909, and the subsequent versions by
Caille and Watling, the side pull handle became the most popular actua
tion device.
The Caille 1912 catalog shows the firm's LIBERTY BELL models with
the TIGER and SPECIAL TIGER with front right levers.
catalog
shows
a
But the same
machine called YANKEE with the same side handle
com
.
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:
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drive for the handle in 1912.
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Your TIGER ow
also differs
the earlier models in having thp wording
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w
/
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: on the base. My guess is that the machine was made
"Fortune Teller"
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around 1913-1915 before the Bell machines completely replaced
the
carried by your TIGER.
Therefore, Caille had the handle and the power
single-reelers, which would suggest limited production.
One wonders if
any of the other single-reelers were reengineered in the same way.
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