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Anyone know anything about a slot machine that has this type of payout? Three jackpots. It also says Baker Built. I know the machine in the picture does not support that kind of payout.

Hi oldslotman,
I believe Baker were revampers of many Mills etc machines and generally attempted to 'make their mark' by introducing 'new' payouts and/or painting cabinets different colors..
andydotp

They must have made their own reel bundles to match the three jackpot payout. I kinda like to find one of them.

I wonder if that's the same "Baker" company that ripped off Gottlieb's Indian Dice trade stimulator and brought out a virtually identical (except three dice instead of five) machine called "Pick -A -Pack"?

This must be a Baker Built guide for the vertical payout fingers. There is room for three jackpot payout fingers. Seven payout fingers total

Yes, this Baker Co. is one and the same, that copied the "Indian Dice with their version of the "Pick-A-Pack".
But we can't just focus our hammering on Baker. There were many small mfrs. that copied the larger mfrs.
models on a regular basis. Even the 'Big Boys', (Caille, Mills, Watling, etc.), were copying one another. In the
hay-days of the 20's, 30's & 40's, there were lawsuits being filed on a weekly basis. Even though it was not a
good thing to do at the time, it sure makes our hobby interesting at times, seeing all the different copy-cat
variations that were produced back then.

I often wonder how the current market of reproduction machines would be like, if, when it all started back
in the 70's, with the introduction of the Mills "Lion Front" Repro's, if the Mills Co. would have filed lawsuits
for the fraudulant activities of these builders. Then afterwards, more than one person started building phoney
"War Eagles". I am quite sure, that none of them EVER contacted Tony Mills, to get an OK ot start Reproducing
any of the Mills machines. Same goes for Jennings, Watling, and all others.

Collector's Treasury of Antique Slot Machines from Contemporary Advertising. A great book by Peter Bach. Page 234 1939 a reference to Baker Novelty Co. Lake street Chicago. I have a Black Beauty resembles the Mill's Cherry front the half top with four cherry medallions on the front. I have had the machine for several years and it plays and pays correctly. Right place and time a dealer had just purchased it and was going to go through it had already emptied the silver Mercury head dimes from it. I said sell it as is and he did. The Black Beauty by Baker is all Mills on the inside, but I believe the cabinet and castings were produced by Baker.