Coin Slot

Coin Slot Magazine - #078 - 1981 - August [International Arcade Museum]
Letters to the Editor continued
Thanks for the great pictures, and take heartfor Louisiana.
Marylandjust became a collectible state, and that was thought
to be just about the toughest one around.
I hope that Louisiana will become a legalized state for Slots in
Regards,
Editor
the very near future.
Yours truly,
RPB
Dear Robert,
Like most anyone else that's really in to coin machines, we
are dazzled by mechanical beauty. And your machines arejust
beautiful. This is just the kind of restoration we like to see.
Proper, and not overdone.
Your dates seem about right, although we have a few
comments. Your Mills "Torch" (thanks for the serial, we
passed it on to Bueschel's update. It's one we've never had
before) is smack right on for 1929. We'd say that Jennings
DIXIE BELLE is 1937— that's thefirst time they show up in
the serial number listings that you'll find in Volume 3 "100
Most Collectible Slot Machines". The Mills "Diamond Front"
has a post- WW2 Buckleyfrontplate on it, and ifthat was on the
machine we'd say it probably a Mills MYSTERY or BLUE
FRONT prewar updated around 1946 or 1947 to a Buckley
1929 Mills Jackpot Reserve
1936 Jennings Dixie Bell
JACKPOT BELLE (See Coin Slot Guide No. 25 that illus
trates and describes all the post-war Buckley JACKPOT
BELLE and CRISS CROSS models, as well as your next
machine). You're right on with your Buckley BONANZA. It
came out in November 1948.
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# Antique Slots •
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• Juke Boxes •
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Dear Editor:
I've just come into possession of a H CHIEF ("Four-Star").
The cabinet paper carries the serial number #129465, but the
mechanism has #129456 stamped on the back so I'm a little
unsure which serial number to report.
Another strange thing is that there's a 100 stamped on the
back of the escalator behind where the slug rejector cup would
have been. The mech plays well on pennys, but pays out one
short at the higher side.
Questions: 1) Do you think the serial numbers were reversed
by mistake 456 to 465? 2) Could the mechs have been switched
and pennys played through a dime mech? — got any opinions?
Sincerely,
Gil Jones
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