Upcoming Auction

[gamblingman]

For those of you that do not follow Gallery63 in Atlanta, they have some nice looking slots coming up for sale on the 10th....including an entire set of Jennings, which look nice. Go to www.Gallery63.net
The pictures are not god enough to see much in detail, so I am guessing you would want to call them to get more info.
I believe they do phone bidding/shipping

[Dave]

The matched set of Jennings Bronze Chiefs are actually Jennings Governor's which were made in the 1960s and mainly for the export market.

Jennings Governors usually don't bring very much money.

I think all the marquess are reproduction. They are definitely not the Jennings Bronze Chief models like the listing implies.

Dave

[gamblingman]

Yea, I knew they were not Bronze Chiefs, but I wasn't sure exactly what they were. Thanks for the clarification. Obviously they don't know much about slots because they don't even list the model on the others. There are several other items in that lot listed incorrectly as well. I don't think they do much research.

[Dave]

On the TV show they bring in an 'expert' to give them advice.

Guess they didn't do it for these.

I wonder if these machines will show up on the show? Is the show even still on? I haven't seen it in a long time.

[gamblingman]

One of my friends from our corporate office goes there all the time. They only film at a few sales, and it is usually announced ahead of time. I'm betting these won't be on the show, else there would be a lot more information listed on them.

[YourBestBet]

Unfortunately, parts of this show are staged just like any other reality TV show. I only know this because I attended one of their auctions last year to bid on a couple of Mills High Tops. However, the TV show had scenes of me raising my card bidding on a $5,000 silver set!! Just like Dave said, they alway make an effort on the show to verify the legitimacy of items. Unfortunately, most items get swept under the rug.

[watlingboy]

They should know what they are selling, the guy who runs this auction, his father has been doing coin op auctions for years. He sometimes appears the show.

Watlingboy

[Bill zap]

The man watling boy is referring to is Bob Brown. Former owner of Red Baron Auctions. Which was a wine you and dine you auction geared not towards the collector but on rich dudes and their wives mistresses etc who have more money then we can imagine. So everything was based on flash and the reliance of the buyers to believe the auctioneer or just want to show everybody how much money they have. Most of these auction companies would care less about the collectors....unless of course their auctions are geared towards collectors. I know Bob and really have to say that he doesn't intend to deceive but lives buy the rule buyer beware. As anybody who goes to an auction should realize.

[Bill zap]

Also please realize that NO AUCTION HOUSE guarantees the authenticity of what they are selling. Christie's Sothabeys and the rest have disclaimers on their auction catalogues. I'm not defending auctions but rather saying that one has to be extremely careful bidding on any auction from country farms to eBay to the hi end Christie's etc.