Coin Slot

Coin Slot Magazine - #056 - 1979 - October [International Arcade Museum]
Cdifors Statement
This has been an exciting last few weeks during
Machine Show.
All listings are free.
Simply send
which The Coin Slot held the 1st Coin Operated
us the date, city and state of event and who to
Machine Show to be held in the Rocky Moun
contact with a phone number (include your area
tain Region.
code).
The response was tremendous and I
want to thank all those that participated.
WE
We are starting a free service for any upcoming
shows that you will find in this issue.
The space
MUST
RECEIVE
YOUR
LISTING BY
THE 10TH OF THE MONTH FOR PUBLICATION
IN THE FOLLOWING ISSUE.
is provided to keep the collector and dealer in
formed
of upcoming slot machine shows.
For
your event to qualify it must be a Coin operated
Vickie Weddle
Editor
JOetters to tfie Cditor
I have enclosed a stamped, self addressed en
Dear Editor,
velope for your convenience.
I have been most pleased with my subscription
Please send photos
back.
to "COIN SLOT" and look forward to receiving
Very truly yours,
each months issue.
Frank Tishman
I
am pleased to forward to you a copy of a
letter
I
just received from Mr.
Bernard Getlan.
Dear Frank;
I hope you can make use of this news if you don't
The machine is the Mills JACKPOT "Poinsettia"
already know about it.
I have just photographed and looked over my
of 1929, except, the serial number of 144,998 is all
wrong. The JACKPOT had serials in the 240,000
quarter slot machine and am enclosing the photo
range, and the machine is described in detail in
graphs.
of the machine (see arrow in Photo) and is No.
my book "The 100 Most Collectible Slot Ma
chines", Volume 1. The funny part is that the
144998.
serial on your machine is from 1926.
The serial number is located on the front
My hunch
is that the machine was originally a Mills 1926
Inside the machine all the parts are stamped
MLB followed by a number.
a
OPERATOR BELL that was upgraded by Mills
o in m 1929 to be a JACKPOT, thus accounting for
c
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eum the early serial on such a late model. The book
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What is this machine?
e How a old de is it? It is
oad and .a that
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Mills quarter machine
rc is all I can tell.
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will tell you
more about it and give you some
idea of its value.
And thanks for the stamped, return envelope.
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