Coin Slot

Coin Slot Magazine - #061 - 1980 - March [International Arcade Museum]
restored, and totally unique.
No other machine
and
identifies
the original
machine prior to re
like this has ever surfaced, so if you see it, or
vamping as a Mills 1927 OPERATOR BELL, giving
someone offers it to you, contact the Coin Slot
us an idea of the dates of the machines used by
right away so we can track this down and try
Rockola to make the more modern jackpot models.
and get Dave's machine back to him.
Most of the other serials in the lists this month
The other machine, serial 268,338, is a Rockola
revamp of a
came from collectors, and there are some interest
Mills SILENT JACKPOT FRONT
ing additions.
VENDER ("Modern Front") to make it a "War
Eagle".
Two are very helpful as they finally
give us some dating for the Jennings and Mills lines
The front is distinctive, and only a few
in the middle 1930s, for some reason the hardest
of these machines are known. So be alert.
dates to ascertain.
The Jennings CHIEF ("4-Star
Chief") serial 124,196 carries the date "6-36" on
It is sad to report such thefts, but now that we've
the inside paper.
got serial numbers we just might have some pro
date in the middle of the CHIEF line at last. Sim
That's June, 1936, and a clear
tection against the theft and movement of such
ilarly,
machines, and will at last have a chance to track
373,468 carries the date "8-20-34", so August 20,
down the distribution channels of stolen machines.
1934 is the date of this model.
a
Mills
FUTURE
PLAY VENDER serial
To get to more cheerful thoughts, you'll see some
Another interesting batch this month is the gaggle
interesting machines in this month's list.
of Caille BEN HUR machines that have been found
The
sources are varied, with a batch of them coming
by collector Norby Muszalski in Michigan. Norby
from the Gordon Pace auction held at the Chewy
has four of these machines, three found in the
Chase club in Wheeling, Illinois, in January 1980.
past year.
Pace held a marvelous auction, and the closest this
for the BEN HUR anywhere at any time.
That's a record apparently unmatched
to the super-successful Arrington auctions in the
opinion of many who visited.
So that's it for this month, and a busy one at
The author went
from machine to machine to get the serials to be
that.
included in this update, and a lot of interesting
Gordon
information was filled in.
through all the machines at the auction to get the
data.
A lot of collectors contributed, specifically
Pace,
who let the author poke around
Then we owe our monthly debt for infor
A Sot of interesting machines were there, and many
mation
showed the effects of revamping years ago.
Bockwell of Illinois; Mike Levin of Antique Games
instance,
the Jennings
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to
Pete
Northbrook,
Hansen,
IL;
Dave Kenney and Joe
Norby Muszalski
of Warren,
("Blue Boy") in the serial list actually had a Pace
MS; Joseph Machaos, Jr. of Union City, CA; Guil
"Butterfly" jackpot front, machine serial 79,009.
Jones of Houston, TX; Tony Mitchell of Pough-
A Buckley CHROME JACKPOT BELLE at the
unnamed
auction, serial number S-508,998, showed its Mills
setts.
keepsie,
NY; Bill Bloomer of Bellevue, WA; and
collectors in California and
Massachu
BLACK CHERRY parentage, so that helps set the
track of Buckley revamps straight.
One of the really interesting machines was the Pace
1928 OPERATOR BELL, a 5c machine serial S-
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1852. What does the "s" mean? Skelly, of course.
So this must be one of the first of the Skelly
The Mills 1946 VEST POCKET, serial 47,864.
The serial
number is on a plate on the bottom.
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