Rola Top Slot Machines

Auction Lot L307, Jefferson, NC 2020. 1930s era Rol Top Twin Jackpot Slot Machine. Dimensions: 19x16x19 inches. Serial No.: ROL82882. You are bidding on an original 1930's Watling Rol-A-Top 5 cent slot machine. This is a nice machine that has been recently professionally serviced and it plays and pays off correctly. It has had some previous. This is a hard to find cherry front Rol-A-Top machine in restored condition and rare 25¢ denomination. It is complete with twin jackpot reserves, keys included and in nice working condition.

Rol A Top Slot Machine Twilight Zone
Watling Blue Seal Slot Machine

SOLD! This original Watling Rol-a-Tor which was an early manufactured machine for a brief period in the Watling line of Slot machines. Shortly after the Rol-a-Tor line was on production was changed to Rol-a-Top due to patent infringement over the name from a law suit by Norge Rollator Refrigerator Company. So few Watling Rol-a-tors were produced especially the quarter machines. The 25 cent Rol – A-Tor machine is a very rare machine compared to the Rol- a-tops with only a few quarter machines ever manufactured. The Rol a tor were made only with “Golden Token awards “ feature and mint vendors. In the 1930’s who would pay 25 cent for a roll of lifesavers. No one wanted to pay a quarters for a nickel pack of life savers.
Soon Watling Stopped the production of quarters machines. I have only seen one other 25 cent RolATor slot machine for sale with an ugly paint job and are asking $8900. My machine is all original condition, has Original paint, original Watling lock and key, original fortune reel strips, token award feature, original mint vendor locks with key, a nice rare machine for your collection. This Machine in good working order. The mint vendors have plates with lock and key and does not vend mints at the moment. I have never seen a RolATor quarter machines come up for sale before. No. 0036

Rol A Top Slot Machine Twilight Zone

Unusual Weighted Percentage Device Found On A Watling Rol-A-Top Mechanism

Earlier this year I posted some information about antiqueslot machine percentage devices or more commonly known as “bugs”. The article was titled Bugs In My Antique SlotMachine. I followed that up with a short update on a Mills Novelty slotmachine bug we found in a machine a few days after writing that article. Slot

Since that time, we have found numerous other bugs in machineswe have gotten in for repair and restoration. Most of them are a similarconfiguration and do the same job – preventing one of the reels from stoppingon the jackpot symbol.

Watling Rol-A-Top Restored By Nations Attic

Last week I did run across a rather unusual percentage deviceon a Watling Rol-A-Top we were restoring. As shown in the photo above, thisdevice bolted to the outer ring of the reel. While this did not prevent thereel from stopping on the jackpot symbol, it did add quite a bit of weight toone section of the reel. This weight would cause the reel to want to stop in anarea where the jackpot symbols were not located. This sly device was not foolproof but it still did the job of throwing off the number of times it wouldland on a jackpot symbol.

Watling Blue Seal Slot Machine

It should also be noted that it appears Watling went out oftheir way to provide pre-drilled spots on both the reel tins and inner reelstops. These pre drilled holes made it very easy to install a bug in seconds . Generallythe other slot machine manufactures would never put these on their machines butWatling seems to have rolled out the red carpet for percentage device installation.Watling slot machines, specifically Rol-A-Top’s, are notorious for havinghundreds of different small and large changes to the inside and outside oftheir machines. While these “bug holes” may not be in your Rol-A-Top, I’m sureothers out there have some equally interestingly unique features! Don - Nations Attic