Mills Vest Pocket + Mills cigarette vest pocket

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Mills Vest Pocket + Mills cigarette vest pocket

Postby Sslots » Tue Jul 18, 2023 1:13 am

It is believed roughly 50,000 Mills vest pockets were made which Is a lot.

Personal the most uncommon ones in my view are

Mills vest pocket with the Vally sub jackpot base
Mills vest pocket with a 70 reward card, I've only seen a handful of these.
But I personally think the most uncommon is the mills cigarette vest pocket.

Does anyone have Any of the uncommon vest pockets? If so I'll love to see photos
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Re: Mills Vest Pocket + Mills cigarette vest pocket

Postby shortrackskater » Tue Jul 18, 2023 4:43 pm

That is a VERY cool machine! Thanks for posting.
Who made the aftermarket jackpot? I've seen these on eBay time to time.
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Re: Mills Vest Pocket + Mills cigarette vest pocket

Postby drsmlojo1 » Tue Jul 18, 2023 9:09 pm

Yes, Vest Pockets with cigarette tape are very rare. Here's hard to find one I have. Quarter Chrome V.P. with jackpot base. These jackpots could be added on and we're after market made by Valley Specialty Co in Rochester, N.Y.
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Re: Mills Vest Pocket + Mills cigarette vest pocket

Postby drsmlojo1 » Tue Jul 18, 2023 9:11 pm

Here's another view.
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Re: Mills Vest Pocket + Mills cigarette vest pocket

Postby drsmlojo1 » Tue Jul 18, 2023 9:18 pm

Vest Pocket jackpot Attachment.
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Re: Mills Vest Pocket + Mills cigarette vest pocket

Postby Sslots » Tue Jul 18, 2023 11:08 pm

shortrackskater wrote:That is a VERY cool machine! Thanks for posting.
Who made the aftermarket jackpot? I've seen these on eBay time to time.


Thanks. I love both of them, they're pretty uncommon.


And the jackpot base was made by Valley
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Re: Mills Vest Pocket + Mills cigarette vest pocket

Postby Sslots » Tue Jul 18, 2023 11:10 pm

drsmlojo1 wrote:Yes, Vest Pockets with cigarette tape are very rare. Here's hard to find one I have. Quarter Chrome V.P. with jackpot base. These jackpots could be added on and we're after market made by Valley Specialty Co in Rochester, N.Y.



Nice machine looks very cool, it's great to see another jackpot based that's for sure.

You should see if you can find the reward card with 70 on it.

Thanks for sharing the photo appreciate seeing another beautiful machine.

Not seen a 25c in a while
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Re: Mills Vest Pocket + Mills cigarette vest pocket

Postby nvmos2 » Sun Jul 23, 2023 8:42 am

The black and red JP base shown above appears to be an original Valley base made for operators with slots in use on location.

The plain wood base shown above, however, if my memory is correct, was made much later by a collector/dealer for other collectors who wanted one for their VPs (not for actual operators back in the day).
Does anyone else remember them being sold at the Chicago show or knows who made them?
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Re: Mills Vest Pocket + Mills cigarette vest pocket

Postby drsmlojo1 » Wed Oct 04, 2023 10:44 pm

The original Valley Specialty jackpot bases would slide forward when a j'pot hit and dump its contents. The dark wooden repro jackpot bases that some collector made up required a key on the right side of the base to open up the drawer because it didn't occur automatically.
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