Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Sources agree (4 fields)
- technology_generation
- electromechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1935 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 5423 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (8 fields)
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB A.B.T. Manufacturing Company used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/5423/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5423/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5423/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5423/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5423/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5423/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5423/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5423/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5423/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5423/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5423/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5423/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5423/image-13.jpg"] used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB The nameless game pictured here has a hand-painted playfield depicting four crowns. It�s in an A.B.T. payout cabinet and is missing its front coin door. Inside the coin box compartment is a half-peeled sticker still bearing the penciled date of 4-1-35, presumably the date of final manufacture. The batteries in the game were replaced with a transformer at some point in time. We might have assumed this hand-painted playfield was another unfortunate after-factory obliteration of original art if it were not for an article in The Coin Machine Journal of March 1936 telling of an experiment conducted by the manufacturer to increase operator profit. A.B.T. held a prize contest for the artist who could paint the most beautiful playfields using several of their games. It would make sense that the manufacturer would have supplied unpainted playfields for this contest, so it would follow that these playfields are not 'repaints'. One of the two contest entries that are pictured in the article, A.B.T.'s 1936 'Four Roses', has the same design layout as this 'Four Crowns' playfield so they must have been contest entries based on the same game. We don�t know if 'Four Crowns' won any prizes for its artist, but it appears to be a contest entry that has survived the years. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB 10 balls per game. used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog abt-manufacturing-company used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog unknown-four-crowns used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Unknown ('Four Crowns') used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog unknown-four-crowns used