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Question for owners of the Little Duke with a single jackpot. I am trying to determine the "correct" color scheme for the painted front. I have two different, yet both presumably original, fronts with minor differences in the color placement.

If you have one of these machines, can you compare yours with these colors? Seems I've seen quite a variety of machines online in various colors, most likely re-paints, but I'm not sure.

I am wondering if there is an actual factory standard for these machines, or did it vary over the years of production.

Interesting;

My Little Duke was restored to supposedly original by a reputable restorer.
It matches your right hand photo, except the diamond at the top is orange rather than black,
which I am quite sure is not correct,
so now I'm losing faith in my "restored to original."

If you look in Collector's Treasury of Antique Slot Machines, pages 72 thru 98,
there are several of Jennings' original ads.
Unfortunately, they are in black and white, but you can tell by the shading of the colors that your left hand photo matches what appears in the original Jennings advertiesements
EXCEPT the horizontal line to the corner of the award card is painted dark (presumably black) in all the ads.
Also in 1 or 2 of the ads, the vertical side bars appear to be the same color rather than 2 different shades (so there may have been some variation from the factory).
I think I'd go with the left hand photo color scheme and also paint in the horizontal line.

Perhaps somebody else has some original color factory flyers they could post here.

Here are several photo's of the Jennings LITTLE DUKE..
Some are original, some aren't.
Sort through these, and hopefully, you can come to a conclusion as to just how they were done.
Hope this is helpful.
CLICK ON ANY PHOTO TO ENLARGE.
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sit ... dM1MpESeMw

I have two Little Dukes. Both have the paint scheme you show on the right ( i.e, orange above yellow and black stripes instead of bare areas). i'm sure that one of them has never been repainted.

That google image search only added to my bewilderment...seems over the years, people tend to get creative and change their fronts to the "color of the year".

What's odd is, the left image is unrestored, but it was resold by Rockola as the decals were added sometime during its life.

The one on the right had original paint, but very worn, so I repainted it the original colors and placement.