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Coin Slot Magazine - #051 - 1979 - May [International Arcade Museum]
I also have a 1940 Mills Cherry Front (slot ma
Dear Robert,
chine) with the case in excellent condition, but
Thanks for the check, but we're sending it back
so you can apply it to a copy of Dick Bueschel's
only 85% of the guts are inside it.
Could you tell
me what that might be worth?
"100 Collectible Slots.: . . Volume 2" (you can
get it ppd for $16.70 from COIN SLOT BOOKS).
Sincerely,
The answer to all of the questions are answered
in the book, with all of the state laws listed by
Bob Marvin
number.
Plus that, there's an address which you
can write to in order to obtain a copy of the laws
Dear Bob,
from each state, making "Slots . . . Volume 2"
a law-changing workbook.
You'll probably want
to show the book to your friend in the legislature
Nice bunch of stuff!
We can answer some of
the questions, but not all I'm afraid. For one thing
as it answers all of the questions about collectibility,
prices change so rapidly The Coin Slot doesn't dare
and contains a history of how the laws have been
set values. The price guides that are coming out do
changed state by state.
that job, and even when the prices change the com
efforts in Iowa.
Good luck to you in your
And if there are any other Iowa
readers out there that want to help Robert Anastasi
parative values based on condition remain much
the same.
in this fight, get in touch with him right away.
There's strength in numbers.
Your LUCKY HOROSCOPE just might be in
Ken Rubin's book "Drop Coin Here". We haven't
Dear Gil,
seen it yet, but it'll have arcade machines with a
companion price guide.
As for the "green" trade
I very much enjoyed your article on John Caler.
stimulator (your picture is a color poloroid so we
Your photo of him is the first I have ever seen
can't run it!), you ask about, that's the Shipman
though I've talked to him many times on the[
phone.
SPIN
IT from around 1940.
It'll be covered in
Dick Bueschel's Volume 2 Trade Stimulator book
scheduled for later in the year.
*
Perhaps more of these articles on other collec
tors or dealers would be of interest to your readers.
As for the Mills
CHERRY; it's in Dick's Volume 1 slots book, and
it sounds like it is in "incomplete" condition. The
"Price Guide Update" (available from Coin Slot
Best Wishes,
Books for $3.00) rates it at $500 to $850.
Bill Wagner
Hi There!
Have a problem.
Dear Bill,
Slot,
Glad you enjoyed the article, Bill.
have a floor model Mills
no.
is.
We will try
to do more of these human interest stories in the
future.
I
but don't know where the serial
If any readers have any suggestions along
I took the main works out and there is a paper
tag to the right, but it has been painted dark grey.
these lines, the Coin Slot would welcome them!
It is a jackpot type, and it has an Eagle (Blue)
facing left. When I bought it last July at an auction
Dear Coin Slot,
it had a card on it saying "1939 Exposition Model."
Could you please tell me approximately if pos
sible what the Lucky Horoscope might be worth?
I
Would like to trade in the upper coin slot sec
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that slides back against the block is broken
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have 2,000 of the Horoscope paper slips also.
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w.a machine that has a
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reel with six horses // that
spins when you put a coin
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in it, and it also
http dispenses peanuts. Could you also
Is the middle machine in the picture, considered
tell me its approximate value?
© The International Arcade Museum
tion and get another one and trade mine in.
off and I had to take the rivets out.
having trouble with
I am also
the coins jamming up and
having to hand move the slide part in order for
the coins to pass thru.
Any
help you
can
give will be appreciated.
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