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Collector's Guide to Vintage Coin Machines
(2nd edition with revised priceguide) by Dick Bueschel.
Chapters on scales, vending, arcade, slots, jukes, pins and stimulators. Attractive book,
well researched and illustrated, featuring 700 machines all in colour.
Hardback, 220 pages. Price: £32.40
Vintage Trade Stimulators and Counter Games by Dick Bueschel.
Detailed descriptions of the machines, dates, manufacturer production data, plus over
800 pictures, a price guide and a wealth of historical context, will make you an instant
expert on these previously under-represented coin-ops.
Hardback, 264 pages, 792 colour, 24 b/w photos. Price: £29.50
Collector's Treasury of Antique Slot Machines from Contemporary Advertising
(1925-1950) by Peter Bach.
This fat volume makes an excellent collector's source book. It is packed with hundreds
of pictorial slot machine advertisements reproduced from The Billboard (the foremost
American weekly trade paper) from 1920-1950 ofone arm bandits, gambling
machines, console machines, trade stimulators, pinball machines, novelty vending
machines, etc. Hardback, 4 79 pages, b/w. Price: £25
Slot Machines of Yesteryear - Mills of the Thirties Operator's Companion.
The spirit of the Mills Novelty Company in the hectic Thirties is conveyed in their
product brochures, service literature, and in editorial matter from Spinning Reels (the
company's own trade journal), together with press releases, promotional literature,
advertising flyers etc. in The Billboard trade magazine. Excellent source book.
Hardback, 192 pages, b/w. Price: £15
Slot Machines of Yesteryear - Mills of the Forties Operator's Companion.
A source book reproducing a wealth of diverse material from the period: service
manuals, parts lists, press releases, promotional literature, advertising flyers etc.
tracing the progress of Mills Novelty Company's machines during the WWII-
interrupted decade of the Forties. Hardback, 192 pages, b/w. Price: £15
Slot Machines of Yesteryear - Watling Operator's Companion.
This volume captures Watling Manufacturing Company's full range from scales to
bandits in catalogues, brochures, line folders, broadsides and service data, original
patent and mock-up photos of the ROL-A-TOR line, artists' preparatory airbrush
renderings for advertising and promotional material and Watling family photos and
correspondence. Plenty oflegendary anecdotes and well-informed context in the
accompanying commentary. Hardback, 192 pages, b/w. Price: £15
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