I went to a local estate sale today. They had a bunch of interesting looking things on the website - glassware, jewelry, booze and some gambling related things. They had over 1000 pictures of the stuff on their website. Nowhere in their description or details did they say that they had not one but two slot machines for sale. And where were they in the pictures? Would you believe at #882??? How many people actually looked at all 1000 pictures?? And where did they put the slots to display them? On a table in the dining room? Nooooo. Would you believe on the FLOOR of the garage UNDER a table. And did they price them correctly? Obviously I didn't think so or I would not have bought both. Before getting them I did grab a 14k gold necklace that weighs almost 23 grams (that is about $500 worth), then I looked at a cabinet full of booze and picked out a big bottle of Bacardi rum, a bottle of sherry (great for cooking if you have never tried it) and what turns out to be half a bottle of 1965 Rebel Yell bourbon. Boy I really wish that bottle was full - it would be worth some money. Gotta try that tonite and see if it is any good. And how were the prices? Lets just say that before I went I checked Ebay and even if the Golden Nugget machine is a reproduction the lowest sales price on ebay is about what I paid for everything. Oh and I forgot to mention that the machines each had about $40 in quarters in them - the coin tubes are full. The Castle Front machine is the better of the two but both are in beautifully restored condition. The mechanisms inside look like new and both of them work. Now my biggest problem is where to put them. My computer room is already full to the brim with the other 9 machines I have.
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