This particular slot machine is priced at $6,000.00 because of its rarity and condition. We buy all and any antique machines common or rare Mills, Caille, Jennings, Pace, Fey. Al Capone and gangsters of all types would have been big customers to businesses like the Mills Novelty Company. antique slot machine buyer in the world for the past 30 years. This machine was actually considered a gum dispenser to circumvent the law and prohibition at the time. I am predicting a downward value trend on these historical objects as thousands of these items are returned to the marketplace with the baby boomers downsizing. The machines made use of technology protected by United States patents assigned to Mills Novelty Company, including number 1,869,616. By the late 1930s, gum vending machines were being installed by Mills Automatic Merchandising Corporation of New York. A slot machine in average working condition would appraise at $2,500.00 in 2020. Vending machine with bubble gum round 3d render on blue background with shadow Stock Photo. The result, the model 47, was the first of its kind for Cola-Cola. This particular machine is a double eagle slot machine gum dispenser in excellent condition and has been restored by our in house restoration experts. By 1944, the name of the company had changed to Mills Industries, Incorporated. Between about 19, the company’s products included the Mills Violano-Virtuoso and its predecessors, celebrated machines that automatically played a violin and, after about 1909, a piano.

The Mills Novelty Company was very busy in the 1920’s, Incorporated of Chicago was once a leading manufacturer of coin-operated machines, including slot machines, jukeboxes and vending machines.

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