altort wrote:I just picked up this Daval Spinapack, I don't remember having seen one before so I searched on line and have not seen an other, I found a Buckley Spinapack, a Daval Winapack but nothing on this machine, besides the upper casting it's the same as the Centasmoke and the Daval Gum Vendor so I am assuming that it was manufactured around the same time of the early to mid thirties.
As any one seen one of these?
Al:
Congrats on bagging the Daval "Spin-A-Pack". There are a few others out there, but not as many as
most other models. The one on page 143 of Dick's Bible, is mine. They also made a "Win-A-Smoke"
in the same case style.
The most common Buckley is the "Cent-A-Pack", but they made a "Spin-A-Pack", as shown above, as
well as a couple of other names. All of those nameplates have "Ball Gum" in the casting, underneath.
The Daval "Safe Hit" is still the only one known, and it is not for sale. If there is another example out
there, I hope you find it.
Bill