Coin Slot

Coin Slot Magazine - #047 - 1978 - December [International Arcade Museum]
Machine No. 5
THE COIN SLOT &feM#St Wanted9f List
By Dick Boeschel
Manufacturer: The Brunhoff Manufacturing Company
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Machine Name:
FIVE CIGARS
Date Introduced:
Early 1898
Some collectors like big payout
floor machines; some like three-reelers.
AH like to come up with machines
that
no one else has, or have been
completley unknown to date.
That
drive is just as intense among the col
lectors of trade stimulators and coun
ter games.
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there
this area.
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more
collectors
in
A lot of trade machine col
lectors don't tell other people what
they've got; often they don't know.
There were so many of these machines
made over such a long period of time
only the surface has been scratched
Design Patent No. 1
Design Patent A/a 28,856
Applied: April 15, 1898
Designer:
Edward Brunhoff,
Cincinnati, Ohio
in
regard to manufacturers and ma
chine
names and
dates.
Most new
trade machines that have been dis
covered have been found in the hands
of collectors that had them stuck in
a corner because they couldn't identi
fy them by name or a place in time.
That makes it hard to come up with unknown machines for the
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"Most Wanted" list as these are the machines that are most likely
to be around, if only in hiding. Perhaps the greatest function that
can be performed by a "Most Wanted" list for trade stimulators
is to bring the existing examples out of the closet- Sometime,
maybe,
or two that
doesn't exist in a collection and thereby contribute to its redis
covery-
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