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Have a look at this Mills War Eagle just listed on ebay
It is a 1ct, but the payout is a 2/5? and the escalator looks unusual
John

Notice it shows a Gold Award payout also. Not right. Castings chrome plated. Not a correct machine. Most likely has a roll away escalator and wrong payout slides.

Just noticed it has a fish mouth as well
Must be a revamp of sorts

How about English penny?

It would probably be an Americn half dollar coin. That coin and the English penny are so close in size. Never knew of them made for the market ther but that is very possible.
Dave F

This War Eagle is definitely an English 1d Export model. The fishmouth top casting is the giveaway.
Notice the different design work, and the escalator window is slightly taller, and longer than the
U.S. 1c version. Someone has blocked off the coin-view window, except for the little square opening
at the left, and has installed a rollaway feature. You would also think that it has a swapped set of slides
to accept the U.S. penny. Also wrong award card, as machine does not have gold award. And to top it
all off, we have an insane price. Even if it were a complete, and correct 1c, it's a bit on the high side.

Mills did make machines for the British Market, but most of them had totalizator reels instead of fruit reels, but they did make both, from the pointsette and Extraordiary to the Chrome Bell.
(See advertising to confirm this, in those adds they claim to supply them on the various British denominations.)The Samson Novelty Co, were the Official Mills Distributor from 1928-1935 for most parts of Europe,and then Shrefras Automatics became the dBritish distributor after the death of Jack Holloway in 1935. who later distributed the first of the Mills Chrome Fronts with the new single cherry pay-out. (See the add from a 1939 edition of Spinning Reels".

In 1959 Mills Bell-O-Matic Corporation made the first British 6p play high top, these had laminated sides, a gearstick handle and a plastic reward card, and a glass 6d denomination plate. These were distributed in the U.K by an American mob controlled company called Las Vegas Coin Ltd. the head of that company was David "Gabe" Forman who was given 48 hours by the British Home Office to leave the country, because of his connections to American Organized Crime.

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