Coin Slot

Coin Slot Magazine - #029 - 1977 - June [International Arcade Museum]
Jennings introduced mints as a better vending product, with Mills
introducing its front vender F.O.K. later that summer.
Both new
ideas took the country by storm as they met the problems of local
laws far better than the earlier quickly-emptied side venders.
The three-reel Bell machines in the picture are interesting enough;
a total of thirty-six Mills OPERATOR BELL, SI LVENT SALESMEN
COUNTER O.K. and Jennings OPERATORS BELL machines taking
center
stage, including the skinny gooseneck of a 1914 Mills
"Iron Case" clawfoot OPERATOR BELL at the right end of the
second row from the top. If anything, the picture shows the deep
penetration
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that
Jennings
markets soon
really
exciting
had
made
after the end
machines
are
into
the
traditional
Mills
of WWI.
the
ones
on
the
periphery.
Squatting unceremoniously in the front row, fourth from the left,
is a 5-way counter wheel identified as THE/PRINCE with a
jeweled crown device in the center of the disc.
It could be a
Watling machine - Watling started making CROWN PRINCE in
1902 right after buying out the D.N. Schall & Company - but
more likely it was made by somebody else. There's a reason for
this assumption which we'll get to.
At the far left is a beauty; THE STAR, first made by The Automatic
Machine & Tool Company in Chicago in 1899, and quickly copied
by Schall, Watling, Berger, White and others.
The Automatic
Machine & Tool Company STAR had a crank-type coin head.
This one doesn't.
Therefore, it's one of the copied machines.
The head looks Watling.
But I say it's another manufacturer.
We'll get to that.
At the upper left is an uncatalogued machine; a The Caille Brothers
Company FLOOR LIBERTY BELL DELUXE, with the casting
on the front saying "Package Liberty Fruit Gum 5cent" and a
gilded "Gum/Vender" on the cabinet glass. This is a machine from
1911, apparently still paying its way a decade later.
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punchboards and five Mills TARGET PRACTICE counter games.
IMPROVED JUDGE, another original
sold new well into the teens.
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