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Coin Machines by Mills Novelty Co.
By Jon Guy

Just thinking of one of the more interesting Mills coin machines I've
owned.

A couple of years back, I had a Mills perfume vendor.  A one cent
machine that dispensed perfume and a tune.  You inserted the coin and
turned a crank that wound a spring device that powered the small
cylinder music box mech.  and also the plunger that squirted the
perfume from the mouth of a pretty figurine.  At the end of the short
tune she squirted.  Ladies would hold a wrist (neck) near the mouth of
the figure and catch the squirt I suppose.  I never put anything except
water in the thing.

The only other one of these I have seen is in a the frontier museum
in Dodge City.

Jon Guy


(Message sent Tue 7 Apr 1998, 21:52:33 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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