Coin Slot
Issue: 1980 April 062 - Page 28
Coin Slot Magazine - #062 - 1980 - April [International Arcade Museum]
THE COIN SLOT "MOSt Wanted" List
By Dick Bueschel
Manufacturer:
Mills Novelty Company
Location:
Machine Name:
Chicago, Illinois
THE DUCK
Date Introduced:
Around 1900
"Wanna buy a duck?"
That was the theme Sine
of an early radio and vaudeville comic named Joe
Penner who even makes it to the Late Late Show
on the tube in an early-thirties movie.
He carried
a duck around to make the point, and to get a
laugh.
Somehow a duck is always good for a laugh.
When
roasted a duck can also be pretty good for dinner.
But is THE DUCK the right name for a gambling
machine?
Sf it was you'd probably see a lot of
them around, and I've never heard of one.
The
only clue is this picture, obviously THE DUCK
and obviously a model of the Mills Novelty Com
pany OWL.
What you're looking at is one of the
very rare uncataloged Mills machines; or at least
not in any catalog that any slot collectors have
seen.
Someday someone might come up with a
nifty piece of Mills paper that features THE DUCK,
but I for one doubt it.
There
are
other examples of uncataloged
machines.
Mills
Probably the best known is the Mills
LONE STAR, a beautiful floor machine that never
seems to have made it to print.
Just because a
machine can't be confirmed on paper doesn't mean
it didn't,
or
doesn't, exist.
Company--in fact,
all
The Mills Novelty
of the slot machine pro-
ducers-routinely made short runs of machines on
special order for an operator, often producing the
only known examples of a machine for a single
buyer. Anybody who has seen a HULLS CHICAGO
(or even a HULS CHICAGO; surviving machines
m it both ways) made by The Automatic Ma
o spell
c
.
m
eu
m: us
o
r
f
-m
ed
oad .arcade
l
n
w
Dow // The
w Duck
w
:
Nickel machine,
5
slot,
which pays from
p
tt
to $1.00 in h
nickels.
chine & Tool
Company knows this for a fact.
The same goes for anyone that has seen the sur
viving Mills LONE STAR machines.
10c
If these ma
chines didn't survive we would never have known
about them.
26
© The International Arcade Museum
http://www.arcade-museum.com/
THE COIN SLOT "MOSt Wanted" List
By Dick Bueschel
Manufacturer:
Mills Novelty Company
Location:
Machine Name:
Chicago, Illinois
THE DUCK
Date Introduced:
Around 1900
"Wanna buy a duck?"
That was the theme Sine
of an early radio and vaudeville comic named Joe
Penner who even makes it to the Late Late Show
on the tube in an early-thirties movie.
He carried
a duck around to make the point, and to get a
laugh.
Somehow a duck is always good for a laugh.
When
roasted a duck can also be pretty good for dinner.
But is THE DUCK the right name for a gambling
machine?
Sf it was you'd probably see a lot of
them around, and I've never heard of one.
The
only clue is this picture, obviously THE DUCK
and obviously a model of the Mills Novelty Com
pany OWL.
What you're looking at is one of the
very rare uncataloged Mills machines; or at least
not in any catalog that any slot collectors have
seen.
Someday someone might come up with a
nifty piece of Mills paper that features THE DUCK,
but I for one doubt it.
There
are
other examples of uncataloged
machines.
Mills
Probably the best known is the Mills
LONE STAR, a beautiful floor machine that never
seems to have made it to print.
Just because a
machine can't be confirmed on paper doesn't mean
it didn't,
or
doesn't, exist.
Company--in fact,
all
The Mills Novelty
of the slot machine pro-
ducers-routinely made short runs of machines on
special order for an operator, often producing the
only known examples of a machine for a single
buyer. Anybody who has seen a HULLS CHICAGO
(or even a HULS CHICAGO; surviving machines
m it both ways) made by The Automatic Ma
o spell
c
.
m
eu
m: us
o
r
f
-m
ed
oad .arcade
l
n
w
Dow // The
w Duck
w
:
Nickel machine,
5
slot,
which pays from
p
tt
to $1.00 in h
nickels.
chine & Tool
Company knows this for a fact.
The same goes for anyone that has seen the sur
viving Mills LONE STAR machines.
10c
If these ma
chines didn't survive we would never have known
about them.
26
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http://www.arcade-museum.com/
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