mills black beauty

[PLUNGER BOY]

I found this at one of my clients homes . They want to sell it.  They said it works . it was converted to pennies as it was from England . it was in pence ?  Is  it collectable and what is a fair price for it . If i flip it what is it worth ?

[Harvs]

Nice! I'm sure others will chime in, but UCANWIN from the site here is a GOD when it comes to old mech machines. He has the most impressive collection I have ever seen. 

[buybestslots]

if you find someone that don't know or care its a cut pay import you might get 700, myself I would pay no more than 200/250 for it , only a few penny  games bring  money in old slots , good luck

[MONTI'S SLOTS]

if you find someone that don't know or care its a cut pay import you might get 700, myself I would pay more than 200/250 for it , only a few penny  games bring  money in old slots , good luck

I agree with buybestslots, High Tops in a penny denomination don't sell unless you find someone, which would be rare, who is looking for a penny slot of that variety and being an English conversion there are probably other issues and I too would only pay about $200.00 for it and cannibalize it for parts, now if it was a Jennings Little Duke, you'd really have something.

Sorry to give you bad news!

Ciao,
Monti

[buybestslots]

I have a penny little duke in my stash had it since late 70.s , was a trade in for a 809 bally

[MONTI'S SLOTS]

Where abouts are you located? I'm in Northern California, had worked in the casino's of South Lake Tahoe, actually Stateline, Nevada in the 60's and 70's!

[buybestslots]

in  va now we lived in nj till 2008 many of those slots sat in local police station for 3 years  after we got raided  3 years later they had to return them

[MONTI'S SLOTS]

Yeh, I took a look at your profile and you have a lot more room than I do for slot machines.
Gone thru many over the last 35 years but now I primarily restore for customers and occasionally sell ones that I've picked up that need restoration.
One of the jobs I had in the casino's was a slot mechanic and worked a lot on the old mechanical slots and the early Bally's like the 809 you mentioned.
You did good on the trade if you got the Jenning's Little Duke for the Bally.
I used to pick up the Bally's that were removed from the casino's in the Reno/Sparks area when Bally was still in Reno between 2nd and 4th street , if I remember correctly, for $300.00 to $400.00, fully operational and checked out.

[buybestslots]

in 80 we bought games in reno I used to fly them out on planes for 15 bucks each to philly pa , got many from sly clown ,banks, also nifty nickel paper did biz with a farther and his con man son , you might know of them last name starts with a o , we loved reno  we were there every month

[MONTI'S SLOTS]

You probably mean the Shy Clown, it's Baldini's now.
Used to hang out in the Shy Clown in the 70's when it was the place to be.
There and the El Dorado, the Prim and the Brickyard, a little joint under the Wells overpass on 4th, I believe.
I believe the guys you are talking about are Italian.
Knew a lot of guys back then but most have passed on.
The casino's were really fun to work in back in the 60's and 70's before the gaming control board jumped in hard and heavy.
I could tell you some stories but not on an open forum, Just Sayin'!
AH YES, the good old days!

[Op-Bell]

WARNING - IT IS NOT A MILLS.

Look at it. There's no escalator, the coin entry is on the wrong side and the case looks as if it was cast in gravel, not sand. It may have an old Mills mech inside, but it will be a 1930s Gooseneck mech. There was an English company making these conversions in the 1960s, I forget the name now but I can look it up if anyone is interested. I've seen a couple of them before and they're total clunkers, ugly to look at and unreliable to play. If you part it out, in all probability you'll get more for the mechanism than for the whole machine intact. Alternatively, identify the mech inside it and try to find the proper case for it. That could be quite valuable.

[The Fatman]

I have a penny little duke in my stash had it since late 70.s , was a trade in for a 809 bally

If your out of 809's and find avother steal like that ... let me know. I got one I could part with. I might have to think about if for a second ... but it wont much longer that that.
Dave F