by atac » Tue Mar 09, 2021 6:13 am
I'm assuming the mech pays out on 1 cherry. I'm not seeking help to determine whether it's a repro. Someone easily could have put a legit 1940's mech in it sometime over the last 80 years. The Bursting Cherry and Brown Front were originally 2 cherry pay machines. I'm pretty sure all repros are 1 cherry pay. I tried to find stock images of a repro and found many 1 cherry pay machines and many of those did not look like repros from the pics. So that lead me to ask--does anybody know if Mills made 1 cherry pay Bursting Cherry or Brown Front machines? It was a pretty monumental change at the time because 2 cherry pay had been around since around 1910. And whichever maker lead the charge, all the rest followed. All the Mills and Jennings machines introduced in the 1940's were 1 cherry pay and eventually Watling's were too. (I'm not too familiar with Pace, but assume all their 1940's machine were 1 cherry pay as well). Just curious. Seems like an important change and I know there's tons of knowledgeable folks that read this site.