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Mills High Tops

Postby gamblingman » Wed Jul 10, 2013 9:40 am

This may not fall along the lines of "fantastic", but I do need your help.

I just retired after 25 years in Law-enforcement...the last 15 as a gaming agent. One of my former co-workers called me today and asked for a little help. They have 5 Mills High-Top machines which were recently confiscated, and now need disposed of. I am trying to post some pictures, but I keep getting a message that they "board attachment quota has been reached".

These machines have not been opened...they are jammed from transport, but were suppossedly working at the time of confiscation. We are trying to determine date of manufacture, as that date dictates whether they can be sold, transeferred, or (gulp!) destroyed. Since the machines have not been opened, all we can go by is the number stamped into the wood bases....I hope those are traditionally the serial number for these. All of the machines I personally collect are much earlier, and I have never dealt with the high-top models, so I am putting them out there for you all to give me any information that you can. If I can figure out the pic issue, I will get them posted.

These are all high-Top Models:

Blue-Bell .05 SN: 566930
Blue-Bell .25 SN: 569168
High-Top .10 SN:565034
High-Top .05 SN:566923
High-Top .10 SN:568920

Thanks for your help
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Re: Mills High Tops

Postby Dave » Wed Jul 10, 2013 9:51 am

I will check into the quota issue and let you know when the problem has been resolved.

What part if the country are the hightops in?

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Re: Mills High Tops

Postby gamblingman » Wed Jul 10, 2013 10:30 am

I don't want to give the state, as I don't wwnat a bunch of folks calling.....but they are in the midwest. If we can get through all of the red tape and get them, up for sale, I will post everything here.
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Re: Mills High Tops

Postby gamblingman » Wed Jul 10, 2013 10:41 am

Dave thinks he has the Pic issue fixed, so I will see if the photos upload.
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SN 569168
ser__568920.JPG
SN 568920
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SN 566930
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SN 566923
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SN 565034
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Re: Mills High Tops

Postby terick2104 » Wed Jul 10, 2013 1:23 pm

Why were they confiscated? If they are sold who gets the money? Sounds like a bunch of BS, confiscating somebodies machines then turning around and selling them. Stinks.
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Re: Mills High Tops

Postby Midcoast Vintage » Wed Jul 10, 2013 2:05 pm

not if they were being used for gambling.
they could have been in a private club, the back of a bar.
remember the law... it allows us to collect them as antiques, but not to be used for gambling.
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Re: Mills High Tops

Postby gamblingman » Wed Jul 10, 2013 2:45 pm

They were confiscated as part of an illegal gambling site, and the money would go to the state. It might stink, but that is the law. At least these folks are trying to put them back in the hands of legitimate collectors.......I can't tell you how many were quietly destroyed over the years because no one wanted to go through the red tape to take them to sale.
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Re: Mills High Tops

Postby marsonion » Wed Jul 10, 2013 2:53 pm

Let me get this straight... these machines were "recently" confiscated from an illegal gambling operation somewhere in the Midwest... which was operating MILLS HIGH TOPS?!?

:shock:

...On second thought, that sounds kinda neat.

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gamblingman wrote:They were confiscated as part of an illegal gambling site, and the money would go to the state. It might stink, but that is the law. At least these folks are trying to put them back in the hands of legitimate collectors.......I can't tell you how many were quietly destroyed over the years because no one wanted to go through the red tape to take them to sale.
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Re: Mills High Tops

Postby Dave » Wed Jul 10, 2013 3:30 pm

I bought a machine yesterday that almost got whacked by the FBI in 1960.

The guy I bought it from said his dad found it and a bunch of other machines in a false wall back in 1960. The guy I bought the machine from was 13 when his dad snuck it home.

His dad grabbed one of the machines before the others were confiscated by the FBI and met a very violent death with a sledge hammer.

The machine is supposedly all original (it does look pretty nice in the photos).

Pictures and more details to come once I get the machine. I sent him detailed instructions on how to pack it and FedEx should pick it up early next week.

Hopefully it will survive the FedEx experience.
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Re: Mills High Tops

Postby terick2104 » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:17 am

That is what I was thinking, somebody is cleaning up with nickle High-tops.
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