This early machine uses a large ball, not a small pachinko ball. There are a handful of European machines that use this size of ball. Note the size of the hole comes out of.
This machine was on display at the Pachinko Museum (パチンコ博物館).
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| visible on the far left (from the Pachinko Museum pamphlet) |
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| image of the face of the game |
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| machine on the left. (from the Pachinko Museum pamphlet) |
I have encountered a few other machines with a similarly large ball, but even these are extremely obscure (presumed) British games.
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| unknown hat catcher |
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| snooker-themed allwin-style game |
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| WIN pocket from the above snooker machine |
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| pocket from the game at the Pachinko Museum |
Each of these pockets has 3 horizontal bands and one center vertical band. I believe the British machines are late 1920s, though it's hard to say for sure since documentation is scarce. While I am leaving this machine as ~1920s, it might even be early 1930s.
This Bolland machine was listed as "1930s", but I have yet to get that confirmed. as you can see by the ball hole, this is another large ball game.
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| The 3 Sixes by Bolland |
One thing I look for is the ratio of Ball Hall size to coin slot size. we can see similar examples of large ball games if we look back a decade or two earlier.
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| 1910 The Cresset by Cresset Auto Machine Co. |
look at the ball hole size:
Pickwick:
A look at the balls:
we can also see larger balls used in earlier French machines:
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| French slot machine, stamped inside A Bessmann |
As best I can tell, the use of larger balls began with Pickwick style machines, but then fell out of fashion in the early 1930s.
A few German wall machines post-World War II used similarly sized white balls, with a number of popular machines in the late 60s and into the 70s. Many of these German machines were imported into Japan in the 1970s, and a number of Japanese arcade machines in the 1970s copied aspects of the German designs.
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