Mills Vest Pocket jackpot payout

[orangevw]

I recently purchased this Mills Vest Pocket slot. The highest payout on the award flap is 70. I’ve been searching online and have not seen another like it. Is this considered a jackpot version?

Thanks!

[randyvw]

my 1c with valley sales jackpot mounted to the base says jackpot under the 3 bars, and my 25c chrome one says 20 under the 3 jackpot symbols. i got a call out to ray d. to get his opinion, he's the expert on vest pockets......among others.

[randyvw]

some of them actually had a "plus" symbol on the top of the award card....which meant that there was a "agreement" with the bartender that you could get a certain amount of EXTRA coins when the jackpot was hit. this was done during the war, because they weren't paying out enough to entice people to play them.

[orangevw]

It will be interesting to hear what he says. I was searching last night again and I can’t find another. How many nickels will a pocket slot hold?

[randyvw]

after talking to ray, there would be no way to hold 70 coins, unless it was a dime...but they never made dimes. so, either it would be an agreement ahead of time that you would be handed the extra coins across the bar, or if it had a valley sales jackpot bolted on underneath it, those were a handload jackpot, so that would be conceivable ....but he has never seen that award card, and he's had many dozens of them. i asked "what if valley sales made these with 70 just for that purpose". he says no, but those valley sales jackpots are VERY hard to find, so i wouldn't rule that out too quickly. i hope others will chime in here.