Alamo Heights, TX
For games like El Dorado, Target Alpha, etc. that do not have a traditional top-arch, where would Gottlieb put the Manufacturer's Certificate? Or did they have them at all? Anyone know?
Thanks!
(Topic ID: 155132)
They might not have one. On IPSND, there are only photos of the stamped serial number, and not the certificate.
http://www.ipsnd.net/View.aspx?id=766
http://www.ipsnd.net/View.aspx?id=2500
Leduc, AB
Quoted from Darcy:Have you seen that Certificate on a Gottlieb pin after 1974?
Yes, my Quick Draw and Atlantis (both 1975) have them.
Looking at IPDB, the label was used much later than I thought. Including some pins in 1978.
I have never seen them attached to playfield plastics that make up a Top Arch. Just the Metal top arch equipped pins where the arch is white. Totem has a yellow arch and the IPDB pics do show a label on there.
Quoted from Darcy:Looking at IPDB, the label was used much later than I thought. Including some pins in 1978.
I have never seen them attached to playfield plastics that make up a Top Arch. Just the Metal top arch equipped pins where the arch is white. Totem has a yellow arch and the IPDB pics do show a label on there.
I guess I was wondering if they put them in the cab or something, but that wouldn't really make sense, since really they were mostly for show to add an aire of legitimacy to the games, and nobody would have seen them there.
If we go by the fact that those labels have the serial number on them. A good placement would have to be on a permanent location on the game. So one could rule out Playfield glass, outside of the rear door, playfield plastics, and Lower apron and lockdown bar just on looks alone. Inside the head would not be a visible location, although it could work.
Quoted from Darcy:If we go by the fact that those labels have the serial number on them. A good placement would have to be on a permanent location on the game. So one could rule out Playfield glass, outside of the rear door, playfield plastics, and Lower apron and lockdown bar just on looks alone. Inside the head would not be a visible location, although it could work.
Good points.
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