Never having been heavily into the hobby, and getting back into a bit after a very long time, I'm running across some things that raise my curiosity - and in some cases, make me wonder about slots that I might be interested in.
Here is a 10 cent Mills Extraordinary (Gold Award) that is listed as having belonged to a family for the last 26 years, and where the seller "took the time to have the machine re-chromed":
- http://www.ebay.com/itm/10-Cent-Mills-E ... 2c951ba8b2
Were any of these chromed originally in the 1930s, or when this version was produced? (it is a somewhat later one with window for the upper reserve jackpot taken completely out of the casting, though I don't know enough to date it exactly) It's been my impression that at most, the areas that weren't painted had their aluminum polished, when the whole machine wasn't just painted.
Last month on eBay there was a QT Hashmark that was chromed. While I know that the later version, the Sweetheart, was sometimes chromed, I couldn't find any evidence in the references to the Hashmark being chromed, though I did find a picture of another Hashmark that looked like it was chromed.
What do collectors think of chroming or re-chroming a machine?