Mills Pace Jennings Watling Antique Slot Machine Lower Casting To Subbase Mounts
Item History & Price
Reference Number: Avaluer:1364172 | Modified Item: No |
We located several dozenmechanical slot machines in an abandoned unpaid storage unit. Our best guess is that they are completemachines or nearly complete. It appearsthey were taken apart to begin restoration and just never finished. Some have the wood refinished and othersdon't. Some have the fancy designs onthe front polished, some not, and others are in primer or with small amounts of bodyfiller to fill in small blemishes and such. Those were probably being readied for paint with bright colors.
We tossed aroundthe idea of hiring somebody who knows how to put them together & decidedagainst that. If we put some of our ownmoney into them the starting prices have to be higher. And we have looked at many on eBay thatappear to be listed over and over and over with fantasy high prices because theseller has no idea of value or the price came to them in a fantasy dream. I heard it said once many years ago"things are only overpriced when available somewhere else forless". We hope to be for less. All the money from things we find inabandoned storage units goes to a local charity for battered women but we wantto get them decent prices and not pennies. We have done a lot of searching on eBay so we have become a littleknowledgeable on definitions & such but please don't be upset if we don'thave the name of something totally correct, the age, the exact name, or whereor when made, etc. The photos posted are ourdescriptions and everything is being sold as is and the way you see it.
Our goal is to just sell this stuff andclear the unit so we can rent it which is our business, not selling slotmachine parts or machines. Since mostare already taken apart we are going to try selling them as parts to makethings easy for us to ship and see how that works for now. A lot of things are kind of heavy so we willguess at the cost to ship which is posted based upon things we have sold in the pastbut if we guess too high, we won'tkeep any extra money not used for shipping and send it back to the winners account. We are glad to be of any help we can so askquestions if you feel the need but please don't ask us to be knowledgeable orexperts or ask about things not being offered here. And yes, wewill gladly combine items to save shipping costs.
Things we have observed or are aware of:a tag we found with this said "Mills Pace Jennings Watling antique slot machine lower casting to subbase mounts"we have no idea how they work or where there are installed so please don't askthis auction is for all of them so keep some and sell the rest back on eBay to get most or all of your money back
we combine shipping saving you money so best to buy multiple listings as likely the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc., are often free shipping for you