Posted December 16th, 2020 for westwing
The Advertising, Toys & Historic Objects auction - 712 lots featured advertising signs, toys, breweriana, coin-ops, historic objects, general store, agricultural collectibles and telephones.
New Hamburg, Ontario, Canada, December 17, 2020 -/PressReleasePoint/- A Paces Races 5-cent horse race slot machine, made in Chicago in 1934, sold for $29,212 and a made-in-Canada Black Cat Cigarettes porcelain sign from the 1940s realized $10,516 in an online-only Advertising, Toys & Historic Objects auction held December 12th by
All prices quoted are in Canadian dollars and are inclusive of an 18 percent buyer’s premium.
“The Paces Races slot machine blew us away,” said Ethan Miller of Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. “There’s only a handful known. This one was masterfully restored, both cosmetically and mechanically, and it worked flawlessly.” When the game of odds was introduced by Pace Manufacturing in the 1930s, it became the