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  1. By IPDB
    gameplay_feature
    Free Play Holes ×4
    gameplay_feature
    Trap Holes ×10
    ipdb.corporate_entity_name
    Tura Automatenfabrik Gmbh
    ipdb_id
    4748
    ipdb.image_urls
    ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/4748/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4748/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4748/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4748/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4748/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4748/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4748/image-7.png"]
    ipdb.notable_features
    Player has choice of 10 balls for 5 pfennige or 20 balls for 10 pfennige. Trap holes (10), Free Play holes (4). Two outhole troughs. The two coin slots are on the left-side woodrail trim, not on the cabinet front. The lower playfield uses German text "Freikugel" and "Aus".
    ipdb.notes
    Playfield layout and multi-colored artwork resemble Keeney and Sons' 1932 'Rainbo'. Advertising flyers show the manufacturer of the double coin slot version as C.M. Schwarz G.M.B.H. of Leipzig. This manufacturer changed its name from C.M. Schwarz as it moved away from licensing foreign machines to only producing domestic games. Reportedly, this change occurred in August 1932. We invite any documentation to support or confirm this date. Pictured in this listing is a game with only one coin slot, located on the cabinet front. It dispenses 10 balls for 5 pfennig, no other choice. It's playfield also has German text. The owner did not find a manufacturer name on or inside the game. The cabinet measures 82 cm long, 44 cm wide, 20 cm high in the front, and 27 cm high in the back. A metal hinge in the back allows the playfield to be raised up. We include this game here until we find any further information that would separate it from this listing.
    month
    3
    player_count
    1
    reward_type
    Free Play
    technology_generation
    pure-mechanical
    year
    1933