Vintage Pachinko Balls, Coolector market

[Johnny Bravo]

Is there a demand or Collector's market for vintage Pachinko balls? I have many with Japanese characters and some with "No. 1" , or "Dynamite", etc. stamped on them. Photo attached is one ball that I believe, as per old forum post, may stand for "katana". These balls have a patina on them and do come back to chrome finish with a polishing.

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[lotsoballs]

You can collect just about anything, there’s a few pachinko ball collectors; that said they aren’t worth any more than modern pachinko balls monetarily. That doesn’t stop people from asking crazy prices for old balls on eBay. There’s countless different variations just like there’s countless parlors in Japan since they are designed to keep people from redeeming outside balls…

50 rusty old balls for sale

https://www.ebay.com/itm/18615653980...mis&media=COPY

[MrGneiss]

There are a few members that collect balls and tokens, but like already said it's no generally a thing, not like stamp/coin collecting, just done for fun..


We do have a place set up for trading, although it's covered in a thick layer of cobwebs!!

https://www.pachitalk.com/forums/sho...Trade-Exchange!!

[Atoombolle]

I started collecting different tokens, mainly to put up some frames with different tokens on my pachislo wall. I got to 8 frames of 90 different tokens each before I decided I didn't need any more to display. Just received another 2000 tokens that, according to the picture, seemed to be an even mix of about 4 different token designs. In reality there were about 200 different designs in the shipment I didn't already have. There were some neat designs in the lot but I was hoping for less variety for once .