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What Is It?
May



Send your answers to the What Is It contest, postmarked by May 20, to the Mountain States Collector, P.O. Box 1003, Bailey, CO 80421.
Three winners will be drawn. Winners receive a year’s subscription to the Mountain States Collector.
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Answer to What Is It?
April

Mark Schlesinger of Middletown, NJ writes, “This penny arcade machine is called “The Mystic Ray.” It is a floor model machine with only the top half shown in the photo. It was made in the early 1930’s by the International Mutoscope Co. of Long Island City, N.Y. When the player inserts a penny in the coin slot the lights start flashing and a fountain pen, located between the towers, moves back and forth. The pen gives the illusion that it is writing a personalized message. After about 10 seconds a card is dispensed into a cup at the bottom of the machine. I have been collecting antique penny arcade and slot machines for more than 40 years. This machine once belonged to me and it was originally operated at the Fun Arcade in Seaside, N.J. This machine along with other ones from my collection are described and pictured in the Time Life Encyclopedia of Collectibles. I read your newspaper while visiting my daughter in Denver, Colorado.” Wow! Thanks, Mark, for the information. You, along with What Is It winner Charles Pheasant of Centennial, Colorado have both won a year’s subscription to the Mountain States Collector. Congratulations!

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