Coin Slot

Coin Slot Magazine - #074 - 1981 - April [International Arcade Museum]
Pace Auction Results
The following is a partial list of some of the highlights of
the Pace Coin-Op Auction held February 22 at the Chevy
Chase Country Club in Wheeling, Illinois.
There were 206 registered buyers in attendance from 19
different states.
(We only have a partial list because that is all that was
sent to us.)
Mills 5(U POINTSIETTA (as found condition)
$1150.00
Pace Comet
1500.00
Columbia 5C
675.00
Jennings PEACOCK
3400.00
Columbia U
Buckley 50$
475.00
1050.00
Jennings CHIEF 50
....1250.00
Jennings CHIEF
1150.00
Jennings LITEUP 5$
Watling ROLL-A-TOP 100
Watling ROLL-A-TOP 250
War Eagle 50
Jennings CHIEF 50
CENTURY VENDING 50
Mills HIGHTOP 100
Mills CASTLE FRONT 50
Caille CENTER PULL 50 Rare
OPERATOR BELL 250
1200.00
2900.00
3100.00
1750.00
1200.00
1350.00
1150.00
1400.00
1015 Unrestored
3700.00
1015 Restored by Ross
1425 Rock Ola
780 Nice, clean, Condition..
1080
412 Clean
1100
5000.00
1350.00
2500.00
4250.00
300.00
1600.00
Victor 5 Phonograph mint original wood horn
WURLITZER PIANOLIN
151/2 REGINA
REGINA STYLE 240
WURLITZER ORCHESTRION
Artisan Band Organ
WURLITZER 150 Band Organ
REGINA STYLE 5
One Armed Bandit
May Get You Yet
Reprinted from the North West Magazine
Portland, Oregon
6000.00
1150.00
1475.00
1400.00
3400.00
7750.00
1200.00
1100.00
1150.00
Caille SUPERIOR 250
Watling BLUE SEAL 100
ROLL-A-TOP CHERRY FRONT 50
LIBERTY BELL 50
CASTLE FRONT 50
CHERRY FRONT 100
Pace BANTAM 50
Mills QT
Vest POCKET
1775.00
295.00
QT50
OPERATOR BELL 250
POINTISETTA 50
DIAMOND FRONT 500
1100.00
1250.00
1100.00
1100.00
2100.00
5500.00
3500.00
4500.00
20000.00
12500.00
19000.00
7250.00
By Buck L. Hannon
For collectors, they go under the name of "American
Casino Collectibles," much fancier indeed than the "One-
Armed Bandit" appellation by which they usually go. But
whatever you want to call them, old slot machines are
gaining in value among collectors who can afford them.
These gambling devices first turned up around 1900
and are much larger and more ornate than later ones. But
they served the same purpose. You put your money in,
and, you hoped, a lot more came out.
An example of the turn-of-the-century slot machine is il
Bally RELIANCE
3150.00
lustrated here. It was made by the Caille Brothers, which
Wood Vending CIGAR DISPENSER
Pulver GUM MACHINE
1350.00
750.00
coin-operated "Test Your Strength" machines for visitors
Auction Results from Kansas
not only made gambling machines but also turned out
to arcades and carnivals as well as coin-operated fortune-
telling machines.
This particular slot machine was named "The New Cen
tury Puck." It is fairly large, standing 641/2 inches high. As
this is being written, it goes on the block by one of the na
By Don Irwin
The following are the results of an auction held in Perry,
tion's most prestigious auction houses, and pre-sales es
Kansas on February 15, 1981. This was advertised as an
timates are that it will bring a high bid of around $18,000.
The Mills Novelty Co., in business about the same time,
Antique Auction.
1 — Daval "AMERICAN EAGLE" Trade Stimulator in ex
cellent working condition. $105.00 (ser. No. 44429).
1
— Daval "MARVEL" Trade Stimulator in excellent
1 _ Mills "JUMBO AWARD" floor model slot machine,
fair condition, no broken glass, but did not work, $550.00.
1 — Exhibit Supply Co's. Pictures "PHOTOSCOPE", in fair
condition, crank missing, $55.00.
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1 — Unknown
some glass breakage, $35.00.
1 — National Advanced Vending Co. "DUCK GALLEY", in
fair to good condition, $35.00.
number
GG424.
name, it was a slot machine of such proportions that 10 dif
ferent players could use it simultaneously. It, too, is being
auctioned with an expected realization of about $56,000.
shape, $105.00.
part
produced a machine called the Mills Roulette. Despite its
Back
missing,
poor
condition,
$40.00.
This was the extent of the coin operated units.
© The
Arcade
Museum
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— THE COIN
SLOT
Collectors of old-time one-armed bandits are likely to
be collectors of other coin-operated arcade machinery, in
cluding gum-ball machines. Of this group, one of the more
popular varieties for the purpose of collection is the cast-
iron E-Z gum machine, made about 1908 and valued by
collectors at about $750. A later device (1920) does the
same thing to music. Called a Singer, it is worth around
$8,000.
Even the somewhat more ordinary one-armed bandits,
the three-reel slot machines popular in the 1920s, are
sought
by
collectors
of early
mechanical
gambling
devices. Prices for unusual ones may range from $3,500 to
$13,000.
Continued on page 29
APRIL 1981
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