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Sorry for the bad photo but can anyone identify this machine?

Thanks, Flip

It's a Groetchen Dandy Vender with a jackpot front.

Thanks. Is this the normal style for the JP front? This model looked so different than the tyopical Dandy Venders such as Bueschel 100 Collectible Trade Stims book and others.

flipper77 wrote:Sorry for the bad photo but can anyone identify this machine?

Thanks, Flip

This is a Grotechen Dandy Vendor with a Jak Pot. It is pictured on page 163 of "Amusement Only" by Gustwiller.

flipper77 wrote:Sorry for the bad photo but can anyone identify this machine?

Thanks, Flip

Flipper77:
The Dandy Vender machine with the jackpot, in your pix, is a totally original example.
Hopefully it is yours, and not on the auction block, as the Vegas Butcher has screwed
up a couple of these in the past. He has also recast the jackpot, which he puts on other
machines, that they do not belong on. This is a pretty scarce model, and to have some
nut-case Bastardize one, is an outrage. Most of our Forum members know the story of
the Butcher, as I have been hammering on his case for years, and I will continue to do
so, until he stops screwing all the newbies in our hobby with his Junk. He now has many
of his junk recast Marquees listed on eBay, (from machines that are scarce), to encourage
others to build Phonies like he is doing. A few have sold. So, what are they being used for?
Who knows! This FAKE Machine Crap must be catching on to a few others, as I have seen
other Phoney machines being slapped together lately. Both on eBay, and live auctions.
Bill

Thanks for the info, Bill. This machine is at a friend's house. I usually stay with pay-outs but liked the look of this one and was considering making an offer.

Flip

Some more info. I actually have one--first trade stimulator I ever got back in the early 80's in Oklahoma. It was a basement find--guy had a non-working 5c Mills QT hashmark, a 10c non-working Caille Silent Sphinx. I bought the two slots and he threw in the Groetchen. I still have it (of course down in the basement!). The non JP models have a raised design in the casting where the award card goes on this model. On the JP model, that area is smooth to allow for the award card, so it was clearly factory and not an add-on. Unless of course the butcher gets ahold of it and grounds off the raised part drills a few holes and adds on his re-cast JP.

atac wrote:Some more info. I actually have one--first trade stimulator I ever got back in the early 80's in Oklahoma. It was a basement find--guy had a non-working 5c Mills QT hashmark, a 10c non-working Caille Silent Sphinx. I bought the two slots and he threw in the Groetchen. I still have it (of course down in the basement!). The non JP models have a raised design in the casting where the award card goes on this model. On the JP model, that area is smooth to allow for the award card, so it was clearly factory and not an add-on. Unless of course the butcher gets ahold of it and grounds off the raised part drills a few holes and adds on his re-cast JP.

atac:
You have a very nice, and hard-to-find model, but it has been painted incorrectly. If you want it totally correct,
the blue areas were originally green, as well as green in the curly-ques at either end of the word Ball Gum, and
also red on the inner frame of the jackpot window. You can see the original colors on the one at the top of this
thread. I can't see the sides of your machine, so don't know if it is correct either.
As for the Butcher, he did sell one of these back in 2011, that was in it's original configuration, except for his
newly added childish paint job. He sold a Made-Up FAKE in 2013, using a recast of this jackpot, with the award
card frame portion cut off, which allowed the 3 vertical bars to be seen, and also added a recast "Bartender"
nameplate, and repro Tavern reel strips. Not sure who may have bought it, as he was asking $899.99 for it. I'm
sure that I posted a pix of it in an earlier thread.