Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Conflicts resolved (1 field)
- theme
- IPDB Western IPDB Historical IPDB American West Flipcommons Catalog Western used Flipcommons Catalog Historical used Flipcommons Catalog American West used
Sources agree (5 fields)
- technology_generation
- pure-mechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 11 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1961 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 6591 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (8 fields)
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB J. F. Frantz Manufacturing Company used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/6591/image-1.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6591/image-2.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6591/image-A1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6591/image-A2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6591/image-3.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6591/image-4.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6591/image-5.png"] used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB The name of this game appears on the cabinet as 'U.S. Marshal' yet a manufacturer flyer (shown here) spells it as 'U.S. Marshall" in their text description. The earliest reference we can find for this game is in Cash Box, Dec-9-1961, page 57 where it stated that the manufacturer 'Johnny Frantz' had presented this game and 'Trickshooter', both "pistol-target amusement games", at his exhibit booth at the recent "Parks Show" (for The National Association of Amusement Parks, Pools, and Beaches; or NAAPPB) that was held in Chicago's Sherman Hotel on November 26-29, 1961. However, the Marketplace Newsletter page 12 dated November 1980 (shown here) reproduces a manufacturer flyer that indicated "The Game Has Been In Production Since 1923". We suspect there were various models of this game since then. In fact, in a brief article in The Billboard, Dec-12-1964 page 45, the manufacturer announced plans to build a "console model" of this game. This may mean the game would now have legs, with or without decorative panels between them, suggesting that models prior to 1964 were legless counter games. However, if it meant something else such that legs were already being used prior to 1964, we note that pinball machines used wooden legs until the 1950s and the U.S. Marshal games that we see with metal legs would not date back to 1923. The Billboard article also mentions a redesign of the "Arizona" gun (which we presume to be the name they gave to the pistol and not the name of a separate gun game), removing the coin chute "from the gun barrel to the front panel of the game." We are unclear as to what that means as all of the examples that we have seen of this game use the combination gun and coin chute as pictured on the Marketplace Newsletter where we see the coin chute is neither on the gun barrel nor mounted to the wood of the cabinet front. Clarity around this point might help determine if a given model was made before, or after, this 1964 announcement. A four-page manufacturer's flyer (not shown here) pictures a game on metal legs with no side panels between them. Three pages picture the parts for this game, except for legs and cabinet, as an offer to European buyers to purchase all of the parts to assemble a complete game but with a cabinet of their own making. Basically, this was an offer to export kits for this game. More information is needed about this manufacturer to definitely state how many different models of these U.S. Marshal games were made since 1923 and the differences between them. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB 10 shots for 5 cents. Pistol game with moving targets. All mechanical action, no electricity needed. used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog j-f-frantz-manufacturing-company used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog us-marshal used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog U.S. Marshal used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog us-marshal used