Odd Groetchen Zepher 10 stop reel strips

[tsparts4u]

I was wondering if anyone has a Groetchen Zepher that has reel strips like the ones shown in attached pictures.
This model of the Zepher has 10 stop reels rather than the 12 stop reels on most Zephers that I have seen.
Symbols on strips are: Hearts, stars, triangles, diamonds, iron cross and clovers.
Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks, Jerry

[tsparts4u]

Can't believe my eyes. It must be an off week for all of the experts on the forum, ha! Not one person has ever seen a Groetchen Zepher that is a 10 stop rather than a 12 stop. Maybe some operator, way back in the day, cobbled this thing together from parts from another machine. It does to appear to be something original though. The symbols on the reel strips are similar to strips that I have seen on another Groetchen machine called the Groetchen Fortune Teller from 1935, but they are not identical. The numbers on the inside of the symbols on the Fortune Teller do not correspond to the numbers on the Zepher model from what I can see in the photo in the picture in Bueschel's book on page 154. The numbers on the Zepher go from 1-0 (10) on the symbols, but on the symbols on the reels shown, the numbers are different from the ones on my Zepher symbols.
I know that there is at least one more (if not many more) Zephers out there with these symbols as one was sold, sometime in the past on ebay. See picture below.

[SLOT DYNASTY]

I have three "Zephyr" machines with 10 stop reel bundles, that have been stashed away for several years.
One with Fortune strips. One with Beer strips, and another with Numbers. Being as most all "Zephyr" models
had either 12 symbol-12 stop Cigarette or 24 symbol-12 stop Fruit strips, I was always wondering if these
odd-ball variations were factory, or aftermarket operator configurations, as I had not seen any others til now.
I also remember seeing one with Candy Bar strips & card a few years ago, but thought it was a made-up model,
as the paper looked too new. If the one with Number strips was factory, I had always figured it was a variation
for the Foreign market, which was fairly common with many different machine models. Most had a checkerboard
pattern behind the numbers. I wonder if any of our other Forum members have "Zephyr" variations that they can
let us know about.
As far as the Fortune strips on the "Zephyr" being the same as the ones on "The Fotune Teller", they are similar,
but not exact. The award card is closer with the symbols, but not in size. The model shown on page 154 of Dick's
book, is mine, and was the only one known at the time. Three others have surfaced since then, and apparently
one of them got into the wrong hands, as the Vegas Butcher has made recasts of the nameplate, to use on his
beloved Phonies, that he makes up, using home-made strips & cards, that never came in that model. I know a
couple of our Forum members that have been snookered with his Phoney Crap in the past, and they are not the
happiest-of-campers.