Games either have metal blades or some games have a grey paint.
Looks like Flying High, factory was metal.
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Here are some pics of a 1953 game, and 2 times 1954.
One has no blades, but factory finish silver paint.
Your blades I am pretty sure are not original in that Gottlieb never cut them like that or used those type of nails.
I think your game was like my Lovely Lucy - no blades from factory and an owner has made some and added. If you remove one and there is silver paint beneath that would confirm.
Quoted from pinb1:The so called 'blades' were not factory installed. Back in the day, cheating customers would attempt to bore a small hole into the cabinet (somewhere just under the wooden side rail ) using a pocket pen knife or something similar. Once the hole was made, they would insert a piece of a metal coat hanger and trip various targets and rollovers in the attempt to score enough points to win free games.
The inside metal blades were an after market product sold by parts companies to Operators to stop the cheating. Some Operators even made there own blades cut from different types of metals and installed them.
I have never ever read this before - it makes sense but I suspect at a certain point in time Gottlieb put them in, as every game after 1954 I have ever seen for sale has them.
Quoted from Darcy:This is getting interesting. Also did not really understand their purpose. Thanks a lot.
From the photos it looks like these blades are on top of the silver paint.
I think yours are home made so to speak.
I just looked at my games - my 1950 - 1952 don't have them.
My 1953 Marble Queen has them but I now suspect they were added by operator as I can see some small holes where I can see that it would be possible to trigger slingshot switches!
I think around 1954 to 1955 GTB put them in all games, probably as a result of operators asking.
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