Cherries on the Third Reel - When?

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Cherries on the Third Reel - When?

Postby quadibloc » Sun Mar 15, 2020 9:01 pm

As far as I could tell from contemporary advertising, one console machine (the Keeney Super Bonus Bell) from 1946 was the first slot machine to include cherries on the third reel as part of a conventional slot machine payout schedule. (Of course, there was the Mills QT, but I don't really count that.)
However, this console did not have single-cherry pay.
I've seen, on the Facebook thread of one antique slot machine seller, a 1947 Jennings Standard Chief with pays on one, two, and three cherries which is billed as having the original payout card and the original reel strips. And maybe it does.
But as far as I know, Jennings might not have had this payout schedule until around the time (1954? 1955? 1959?) it came out with the four-reel Buckaroo; payout cards with 1-2-3 cherry pay are so common for 1949-model "Sun Chief" style three-reelers that this has to have been one of the possibilities offered for that machine by Jennings at least at some time - although it doesn't appear to have been available in 1949.
And I think that Jennings was the first to have payouts for 1, 2, and 3 cherries, and that Mills never offered this payout on a mechanical slot machine. (From the Handbook of Slot Machine Reel Strips, Pace did offer this kind of pay for machines specifically intended for casinos, but that has no date information.)
Would anyone have information on this, or pointers to resources?

On another forum, I've been informed that Jennings did have a Casino-J set of reel strips before 1949. Also, I realized that while you can bend a payout finger back to change two payouts on 2 and 3 reels to two payouts on 1 and 2 reels, if you have three payouts, on 1, 2, and 3 reels you need to add parts. A web search turned up pictures of several Standard Chiefs with the 1, 2, and 3 cherry pay, and given that (about the payout fingers) that's valid evidence the payout scheme existed at that time.
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Re: Cherries on the Third Reel - When?

Postby PeppiB » Mon Mar 16, 2020 4:13 pm

The Mills QT hashmark model has a three cherry payout. Peppi B.
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Re: Cherries on the Third Reel - When?

Postby marsonion » Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:46 am

PeppiB wrote:The Mills QT hashmark model has a three cherry payout. Peppi B.


Also, the 1938 Caille "Playboy" model featured third-reel cherries to replace the voided lemons. It functioned practically as a direct substitution, since three cherries in a row paid five coins, just as two cherries and a lemon would have. There was no payout on a single cherry, however; I don't think any manufacturers did that until after WWII (I could be wrong) by which time Caille Bros. was long gone.
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Re: Cherries on the Third Reel - When?

Postby quadibloc » Wed Mar 18, 2020 1:47 pm

Thank you! I had seen pictures of the Caille Playboy, but I hadn't noticed this. Yes, single-cherry pay combined with three-cherry pay did not happen until after World War II as far as I know (apparently it was first done on the Jennings Standard Chief) but of course single cherry pay by itself started with the Mills Chrome Bell (Diamond Front) as we all know (although I only learned it recently).
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