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Just wondering who is going to the VCA auction.

I plan on going. Don't know if I will stay for Sunday or not.

If you are going reply to this thread. Maybe the forum members can get together.

Dave

Frank DeTrana will be there all three days

I would love to go but its a long flight, around 9 hours from UK!
Is there many Europeon collectors going?
What do you US collectors feel about us Europeons taking some of your coin op history to foreign shores??

clubconsoles wrote:I would love to go but its a long flight, around 9 hours from UK!
Is there many Europeon collectors going?
What do you US collectors feel about us Europeons taking some of your coin op history to foreign shores??

You are welcome to come over here anytime. We have plenty of machines to go around.
In fact, you can take home all the Fake and Phoney Crap, that the Vegas Butcher has destroyed
for the past several years. We don't want them here.
I have a good friend, and customer across-de-pond, that collects nothing but U.S. machines.
He doesn't particularly care for most of the British machines.

SLOT DYNASTY wrote:

clubconsoles wrote:I would love to go but its a long flight, around 9 hours from UK!
Is there many Europeon collectors going?
What do you US collectors feel about us Europeons taking some of your coin op history to foreign shores??

You are welcome to come over here anytime. We have plenty of machines to go around.
In fact, you can take home all the Fake and Phoney Crap, that the Vegas Butcher has destroyed
for the past several years. We don't want them here.
I have a good friend, and customer across-de-pond, that collects nothing but U.S. machines.
He doesn't particularly care for most of the British machines.

Thanks for your reply.
I spent a day with Fred Abel AKA "the Vegas Butcher" last year whilst on Holiday in Vegas.
Took a ride with him down to Thousand Oaks, CA to a COCA meeting and saw some awesome collections!
He was amenable enough and never tried to sell me anything, I think that he figured since I have been collecting since 1994 I must know what I was looking at?
Which isn't necessarily true, to be honest!
I, too, appreciate europeon machines, especially the early ones!
But because I like three reel slots and diggers, I invariably go for the US made machines and also prefer them running on US coinage!
So your friend in the UK is not alone in his tastes!

was the stuff in fred's personal collection all butchered up, or, does he keep his own stuff correct?

I live here, so I'll definitely be there all three days. ave

Lots of Dave's ... I'm Dave Mason.

Midcoast Vintage wrote:was the stuff in fred's personal collection all butchered up, or, does he keep his own stuff correct?

He had a lot of Stimulators and they all looked really nice, probably too good to be true?
So they may have been Frankenstein machines?
I cannot say one way or the other as I am no expert on these.
What I can say is the full size slots were Mostly Jennings and looked as if they had seen service in the Vegas casinos at some point. Many were in wooden consoles and they all looked pretty correct to me and I do know a Frankenstein Jennings when I see one.

I was hoping to go but now its looking uncertain. Could someone do me a favor and take some pics of these lots for me?
Lot 755, 1114, 1427
They all look like Keeney Magic Clocks to me. I am most interested in the backdoors & locks.