PAPAHOG's COLLECTIONS

        This SITE will be used to showcase and list for sale the fully-restored, museum-quality coin-operated antiques of www.coinopantiques.com ; we have 30+ years of experience handling coin-op antiques.  He buys, sells, and repairs virtually all types of coin-operated antiques.  All antique coin-op items sold in this store come with a 1-year parts & labor warranty.  Most who deal in antiques of this nature offer no such warranty because of the extreme scarcity of original parts.  PAPAHOG has no such problem.  The customer need only - in the rare event of a problem - pay for SH&I to send in the item.

• We buy, sell, and repair.  Just tell us what you have in mind.
• I'm willing to deliver anything purchased in my store to the April Chicago Slot Show, free of charge.
• I'm also willing to trade original Mills full-size slot parts for original Mills QT parts.
• Also, I will buy any original Mills slot parts and possibly those of other makes.  

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The Following Description Is from One of Our Past Auctions and Is also a Good Example of one of Our Tutorials on How to Spot a Fake Antique Slot Machine :

Mills ca.1931 War Eagle, 25-cent antique slot machine.  All right folks, here's the official "War Eagle Tutorial": You've probably seen a lot of on-line auctions for Mills War Eagles and, therefore, think they're not rare because of the perceived high number of them.  Well, 99.5% of them are fakes, phonies, frauds.  That's right, they're repros - a very ugly word when it comes to the antique slot market ... and an even uglier way to do business.  And there's an easy to tell the difference: As you can see, mine has the correct 2-cherry payout (repros have a 1-cherry payout), round instead of square denominator button, metal bolt-on cover panel on the right side of the wooden cabinet where the provision for side-vendor linkage exists (repros are just solid wood in this area), an original stamped-steel handle instead of an over-size, cast repro handle, MINT ORIGINAL reel strips, matching number lock & key, and original castings with original MLB factory casting numbers.    And original ones have precision-polished castings, not chrome-plated ones!!!!  The fact of the matter is that the MILLS WAR EAGLE, the first escalator-style machine intoduced in 1931, is a very rare slot machine.  Not many still exist, and even fewer in the quarter-denomination.  Beware of repros; you probably have socks older than most repros - they're not the real deal.  The War Eagle you see here is in museum-quality condition.  It looks the way it did when it rolled off the line almost 75 years ago.  Perfect original reel strips, award card, etc.  Wood is fabulous.

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Below is a small sampling of some of the rare, museum-quality machines that have been offered on our site:

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