Hi mate,
I dont think the PF would be locally made, there was nothing in Australia that would even pertain to pinball in the 30's.. any pinball that was on these shores at that time was shipped in from USA. Quite a few were shipped in by immigrants that set up shop here, they would bring all that sat in the milk bar in USA with them on the ship and simply set it up once here. I have a 1937 STONER RICOCHET that was brought to Tasmania in late 30's. The business then moved to melbourne where the pin was sold to a vendor here in Brisbane, by 1949 or so, it was sold privately and sat under a house till i bought it some 5 or 6 years ago.
A give away would be the coin slide.. if it has been converted to old pennies or similar than it was on site here somewhere for some of its life, if it is still 5c or 10c then it was never in play on these shores.
a good person to send your pictures to would be TERRY CUMMINGS - he specialises in 30's pinball, he can be contacted through his site here
http://1930s.com/pinball/index.htmlThere are about 3 email addresses for him on this site... ONE of them DOES work - LOL!!!
I have some other contacts also for this sort of thing and MIGHT be able to shed some light on it for you... it took me 5 years to track down a good scan of the STONER logo so i could recreate it and finally finish the restore of RICOCHET. I have an email address somewhere that i will post - on this ranch are some 400 1930's machines.. if anyone has seen anything similar or even the same it will be this guy... just give me some time to dig it out as i cant even remember his name or the name of the ranch right now... he was however Russ Jensens very good friend for many years and they collaborated together with their collections.
damn name is on the tip of my tongue....... will get there later....
