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    Default Help identifying and learning more information about our Sankyo

    We have acquired a Sankyo pachinko machine and are having a heck of a time trying to identify its age and learn anything about it and its graphics. There are two people and and angel playing trumpets and floating music notes. I've attached as many photos as I could of things we think may be helpful in identifying it.
    Any advice or guidance would be really appreciated.
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    Default Re: Help identifying and learning more information about our Sankyo

    first off

    That looks like a nice sankyo. too bad a few covers off the back are missing. I have one that was made in the same exact year. (pictures attached) Can't tell the date on yours seeing it was covered up by a different sticker. (might actually have the date but doesn't look like the one on mine.)

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    looks to be a nice clean machine the one cover your missing off the back will not effect game play..

    you 3rd pic will have the date.. but your sticker looks really faided.. can ya try postin a nice clear pic of it... open the glass for that pic..


    trying to figure out what the graphics are is sometimes a lost cause... some of these machines really apper to be totaly random.. if theres a rime or reason to it its sometimes lost on us..


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    Default Re: Help identifying and learning more information about our Sankyo

    Thank you both. Moparformance, which of the three stickers in the photo is the one that would have a date and I'll git a closeup? All three are in Japanese, though; no English anywhere.

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    I didn't go to the storage room to check... but my 1st thought was, with all that green plastic on the back... it must be a Sankyo! Nice looking machine! Clean it up and it will serve you well. BE CAREFULL! THEY MULTIPLY!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Melmer View Post
    which of the three stickers in the photo is the one that would have a date and I'll git a closeup?
    seems like most of the time the date is in the center one... ya dont really need to post a pic.. just look for the numbers... probably something around a 52 or a 54... then add 25 to that to get the year the sticker expired... then subtract 1 or 2 years to get the best guestment of a production date...

    most defantly a Sankyo...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Moparformances View Post
    seems like most of the time the date is in the center one... ya dont really need to post a pic.. just look for the numbers... probably something around a 52 or a 54... then add 25 to that to get the year the sticker expired... then subtract 1 or 2 years to get the best guestment of a production date...

    most defantly a Sankyo...
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    After extremely close examination in better light we still are finding no English in what appears to be a tax stamp (I added a super close-up) but there is some English on the silver sticker above it. It "reads" three japanese characters english number 239, one japanese character, - 4. I don't believe that is what we are looking for.

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    the date is usualy in the frist sticker ya posted...

    i would give it a guess at a 1974 or 76 era machine

    nice clear pics
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    Never saw an expiration tag like that one before. Could date back all the way to 1970 maybe. Its not like any mid 70's Sankyo I am familiar with. Good puzzle, I would like to see it solved.

    Is it possible that the tag is covering up another sticker? That would explain quite a bit, although I would not be surprised to see it being a very early 70's machine.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Moparformances View Post
    the date is usualy in the frist sticker ya posted...

    i would give it a guess at a 1974 or 76 era machine

    nice clear pics
    good guess because if I can recall I think mine is a 74.

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    Default Re: Help identifying and learning more information about our Sankyo

    I'm with you guys 73 or 74, definitlely worth restoring or just keeping for fun!!

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    Thanks for all the guesses at the age. We are cleaning it up and probably going to source out that missing plastic piece. Excited to one day have someone figure out that tax stamp. I would think it was imported into a different country and smuggled here if "Pachinko Palace" w/a California address wasn't embossed on the back.

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