JP Front

[nvmos2]

This Jennings revamp recently sold on Flebay.
I added it to my serial number list, but don't recognize the JP front to correctly ID it.
Anyone know for sure who made this JP front?
Thanks.

[terick2104]

It appears to be a Roberts Front, although I have never seen this particular style.

[SLOT DYNASTY]

Although this does appear to be a Roberts Novelty revamp front, I have seen this particular one before, with the
two Ribbon designs on either side of the JP cup. Just have to start digging through my archives to find it. Many
times, Roberts had their name in the casting as well, but not always. The problem with all the JP revamps that
hit the market by storm at the time, is that there was so much design-theft going on by small revampers, that it
is very hard to pin-point every single casting. There is even a large variety of jail-bar designs on the JP windows.

What leads me to believe that this machine is an individual theft design of a Roberts, is that the framed squares
on each side of the JP window, does have the same wording on the left side, but similar wording on the right side,
and the frame design is also different. Roberts mainly used Court-Card symbols below, where this one has the Ribbons.

Even though I have spent much time studying individual design changes in machine castings, I never made a point
to do it more thoroughly early-on, and look for casting numbers, names, and marks, on the backside of the castings.