I have just acquired a Superior Confection horse race machine that I cant find any information about, it is all original un restored machine, I have searched all over the web and the only potential mention is on the
arcade museum web sight making reference to five horse racing machines but I believe that they are all about the well known Superior Races just mentioned several times and only one has pictures of the machine.
Further more depending on were and what you read about Superior Confection Co. they manufactured machine from 1927 to 1939, but on the back door casting it is clearly stamped 1-11-26 at least one year before Superior Confection Co. began manufacturing machines,
This is the second one of this machine that I have seen but I thought that the first one I see was a made up machine since the cabinet was made of plywood, the owner of that machine bought it that way and did not know much about it except that the original cabinet was damaged and rebuilt out of plywood.
This is a payout machine that pays out four nickles on winning horse with no odds variables, there is also an other interesting feature, besides the back door there is a keyed lock that once turned it moves a lever that will keep the pay out slides from paying out making this more of a trade stimulator or an arcade machine.
An other feature that this machine has that is cool is that when you hit a winner the flag on the right swings over activating a counter that will keep count of all the winning pay outs, 6221 to date and to retrieve your winnings there is a spring loaded door on the side that you push in to get your four coins.
I have owned several several Superior machines and they all have very fancy art deco castings with wood sides
this machine is mostly wood bot the castings do have similar art deco styling.
I started looking through some of my books but nothing yet, any one have any info on this machine?