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1952 · Gottlieb

Coronation

Open sky with white clouds, seaside promenade with a striped tower and bunting and row of coloured circles along the bottom border.

Year
1952
Maker
Gottlieb
Type
Electro-mechanical
Display
Backglass lights
Players
1

Made by

Design
Wayne Neyens
Art
Roy Parker

Vision analysis

On the backglass

Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.

Coronation backglass

Backglass

  • blue
  • purple
  • red
  • yellow

Fingerprint: Colossal blonde queen seated wearing gold crown and vast flowing purple cloak holding tall gold-topped scepter, white-red striped strapless bodice, ringed by red crown-framed number ovals 1-7 with "POINTS" arrow, "CORONATION" in white serif letters across purple banner, vertical rainbow score ladder descending left, tiny seaside promenade with bathers

Distinctive

A colossal seated blonde queen in a gold crown and vast purple cloak, holding a sceptre, filling the centre of the sky-blue field. She is ringed by red crown-shaped number ovals 1 to 7 with a white POINTS arrow pointing at her. A vertical rainbow-coloured score ladder runs down the left from 900000 to 100000, topped by coloured digit circles and the word MILLION. A small white oval plaque in the lower right carries a maker's signature and the city line CHICAGO, ILL. A tiny seaside promenade scene with miniature bathers sits at the bottom left under bunting.

Setting

  • Open sky with white clouds
  • Seaside promenade with a striped tower and bunting
  • Row of coloured circles along the bottom border

Symbols

  • Crowns
  • Sceptre
  • Jewelled brooch
  • Points arrow
  • Red crown-framed number ovals 1-7
  • Coloured digit circles
  • Coloured score bars
  • Bunting
  • Striped tower

Lettering

  • Arched white serif capitals with black outline and yellow shading on a purple banner; block capitals on coloured panels

Themes

  • Beauty queen
  • Coronation
  • Pageant
  • Score ladder
  • Seaside

Title on it

  • Coronation

Text on it

  • CORONATION
  • MILLION
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 900000
  • 800000
  • 700000
  • 600000
  • 500000
  • 400000
  • 300000
  • 200000
  • 100000
  • POINTS
  • A PRODUCT OF
  • CHICAGO, ILL.
Who and what
Kind Description
Woman Seated blonde beauty queen, gold crown, white and red striped strapless swimsuit bodice, huge purple cloak, green brooch, holding a tall gold sceptre, smiling and looking left
Woman Tiny miniature figure at bottom left in a blue two-piece swimsuit standing on the promenade
Woman Tiny miniature figure at bottom left in a red two-piece swimsuit with red hat, walking
Man Tiny miniature figure at bottom left in a blue suit and tie, standing
Other Two further tiny seated miniature figures in pale colours at the bottom left promenade table
Full description

A framed backglass painted in flat, bright 1950s airbrush style on a sky-blue sky with soft white clouds. A purple scroll banner across the top carries the arched title CORONATION in large white serif letters with black outline and yellow inner shading, flanked at each end by a small green-and-gold crown emblem and a yellow oval. The centre figure is a smiling blonde woman, a beauty-queen type, seated sideways on an invisible throne of white spikes; she wears a gold jewel-studded crown, a strapless white-and-red striped swimsuit bodice, a huge flowing purple cloak, and a green brooch. In her right hand she holds a tall gold-topped sceptre. Around her head float red crown-framed number ovals 1, 2, 3, 4 on the left and 7, 6, 5 on the right, and a white arrow reads POINTS. Upper left shows a cream panel with coloured circles 4 5 6 7 above 1 2 3 above the red word MILLION. A descending column of coloured bars reads 900000, 800000, 700000, 600000, 500000, 400000, 300000, 200000, 100000. Bottom left shows a small seaside promenade with a striped tower, bunting, buildings and about five tiny figures in swimsuits and suits; a row of coloured circles runs along the bottom edge.