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Lot 815: Coin Op Machine Research Library

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Reserve: $200.00
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Auction Date:6/15/2012 9:00 PM EST

Arcade enthusiasts will treasure this fine collection of 10 books/guides covering the history of slot machines, jukeboxes and coin-op games. The items come from an old-time coin-op collector-dealer, who Included in the lot three vintage Mike Munves catalogues from the mid-1950s, as well as a 1942 booklet entitled "Profits in Pennies," also produced by Munves. These materials are worth well over $1000 at current value and are an invaluable set of resources for a once-thriving industry that today is little more than a cultural curiosity.

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