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Issue: 1978 August 043 - Page 6

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Coin Slot Magazine - #043 - 1978 - August [International Arcade Museum]
stereo viewer.
Yet Bernie's find is in great condition in spite of the
fact that the machine is almost a hundred years old.
The stuff is out there.
You've got to poke around and dig and
track down leads and go on wild goose chases, but the stuff is out
there.
All you have to do is find it and be willing to pay the freight
when you know you're looking at something you really want, or that
someone else would want enough to trade high.
Looking and finding can be helped a lot if you know what you're
looking for.
Slot machine collecting feeds on synergism, and if you
know enough about a machine, or even a particular class of machine,
you'll be able to spot it at sixty yards in the dark in the back of an
old burned out saloon turned hash house.
THE COIN SLOT "Most Wanted" list:
that hasn't been found yet.
That's the purpose of
to tell you what to look for
We're all getting to know quite a lot
about the machines that are; now it's time to learn about the ma
chines that aren't yet, but just might be if we look with smarts.
You'll be reading about old machines, very old machines, and some
not so old.
But they'll all be machines that don't exist, maybe; or
haven't been revealed yet.
hope we are.
We might even be wrong some times;
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If any collector has one of the machines in THE COIN
SLOT "Most Wanted" list we'd like to know about it so we can close
the books on the machine.
Likewise, if any collector comes up with
one of the machines as a result of the information in the "Most
Wanted" list, let's celebrate.
Every new machine is a new thrill for
all of us, and the excitement of the discovery will truly be a shared
experience.
If this goes on long enough we just might put all of the "Most
Wanted"
published.
machines in a price list book along the lines of the one
We could call it "An Illustrated Price Guide to the 100
Most Wanted Undiscovered Slot Machines," and we'll let you-the
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