AzHal
Jr. Member
- May 14, 2007
- 48
- 0
- Detector(s) used
- Whites GMT
First of all I want you all to know that I am a cheap S.O.B. when it comes to garage sales, I don't like spending more than a quarter per item and I think that is to much. Took my sister out with me today she found a few items and I wasn't finding anything great. We were going to stop at one more and then go to an auction preview of a coin sale on Saturday. As soon as I pulled up there was a trailer with a bunch of Gumball machines with a sign that said ALL 4 $130.00.
I asked the lady if that was for all of the machines as there were other items on the trailer and she said yes. She stated that her boss owns storage lockers and he auctions off or sales the items inside if tennant is deliquent in their rent. She said that the gumball machines came from one of the storage units. I looked at them and she said that they had quarters in them but someone ransacked them in the night and stole one and broke into some of the others and oh by the way there are no keys.
I told her that I would take them and would have to go to the bank to get the cash. I stopped at a friends, he and my sister went back in his truck and started loading them as I went to the bank. When I got back they were almost all loaded and they said they heard coins , We got them back to the house and found that I had 9 good machines, 4 that needed work, 2 that were junk, 1 big , 1 bigger, 1 that looks like a robot (vintage) don't have a clue as to what it does as it has speakers on the side and does not distribute anything, 2 $0.50 sticker machines with 8 different sticker coin slots, one that is about 5 foot or so tall that is a game where a ball is manipulated up a mountain and if you get it through the top hole you win a prize has some stuffed dolls in it, this one is on a timmer accepts quarters and has a dollar slot in it. (maybe some dollars in it? )
The one big quarter machine is about 3/4 full of little trinkets in plastic egg type balls. Well down to the nitty gritty one of them that was junk took out $8.75 in quarters all clad 11 pennies oldest 1959, a few nickles and 2 dimes. Was able to open up the big one with the trinkets in it and found another $3.25 in quarters all clad.
Now the next thing to do is get keys from somewhere or a locksmith, clean them up buy gumballs,trinkets etc... find some stores to put them in and let them make quarters hopefully all pre 1964. Needless to say I am kind of stoked about this find.
I asked the lady if that was for all of the machines as there were other items on the trailer and she said yes. She stated that her boss owns storage lockers and he auctions off or sales the items inside if tennant is deliquent in their rent. She said that the gumball machines came from one of the storage units. I looked at them and she said that they had quarters in them but someone ransacked them in the night and stole one and broke into some of the others and oh by the way there are no keys.
I told her that I would take them and would have to go to the bank to get the cash. I stopped at a friends, he and my sister went back in his truck and started loading them as I went to the bank. When I got back they were almost all loaded and they said they heard coins , We got them back to the house and found that I had 9 good machines, 4 that needed work, 2 that were junk, 1 big , 1 bigger, 1 that looks like a robot (vintage) don't have a clue as to what it does as it has speakers on the side and does not distribute anything, 2 $0.50 sticker machines with 8 different sticker coin slots, one that is about 5 foot or so tall that is a game where a ball is manipulated up a mountain and if you get it through the top hole you win a prize has some stuffed dolls in it, this one is on a timmer accepts quarters and has a dollar slot in it. (maybe some dollars in it? )
The one big quarter machine is about 3/4 full of little trinkets in plastic egg type balls. Well down to the nitty gritty one of them that was junk took out $8.75 in quarters all clad 11 pennies oldest 1959, a few nickles and 2 dimes. Was able to open up the big one with the trinkets in it and found another $3.25 in quarters all clad.
Now the next thing to do is get keys from somewhere or a locksmith, clean them up buy gumballs,trinkets etc... find some stores to put them in and let them make quarters hopefully all pre 1964. Needless to say I am kind of stoked about this find.