King of Diamonds

A landscape electro-mechanical backglass panel in a wide cream plastic frame carrying two vertical red bars down each side and three large diamonds (yellow, red, yellow) along the bottom rail. The painted scene is a crowded Belle Epoque gambling parlour under a pale blue sky with white clouds and three tall green street lamps. Upper left: a large red diamond panel holding four reels reading 0.8.8.5. Upper right: a small red box reading 1 PLAYER over a blank white window. A white top banner lettered MFG. BY D. GOTTLIEB & CO. ... CHICAGO, ILL. 60151 is interrupted by a red-and-white logo box, with a red cursive maker's name below and the title DIAMOND JACK in gold-yellow block capitals with black drop shading. The lower two thirds pack about a dozen laughing figures around a green baize card table: blonde women in low-cut red and yellow bodices leaning across the table, men in flat caps, straw boobers and a bowler hat, and a red-haired woman in a red dress perched on a gold-plated machine at right. Fanned cards, a red ball and dice lie on the table. Below, a second reel window reads 000987 with reels 5 and 3 2, above a row of ten red diamonds numbered 1 to 10.

A painted backglass in a cream outer frame showing a crowded casino card room. A blue brick wall fills the background; upper left is a small white house with a red pitched roof, dark windows and a red door. Across the top a white strip reads MFG. BY D. GOTTLIEB & CO. and CHICAGO, ILL. 60057, with a small yellow copyright plaque between. Upper centre-right: 'Gotts' in slanted red script over KING in large yellow caps, a small yellow OF, then DIAMONDS. Around green-baize tables below sit about fourteen painted figures: a woman in a red dress and headband behind a yellow table at top right; a man in a brown fedora and tan jacket at centre; a blonde woman in white with pearls; a laughing blonde in a pale green dress; a grinning man in a striped shirt; a man in a yellow shirt and cap beside a dark-haired woman in green at far left; a woman with a tall blue beehive updo at right; two capped men lower right; a man in a wide yellow cowboy hat at bottom left with a raised fist; and a reclining dark-haired man in a red shirt at bottom right. Cards, chips, cash and tumblers clutter the tables. A white reel window with red numerals spans the lower middle. A red diamond flanked by two yellow diamonds sits on the bottom frame; red vertical bars flank the art. Paint is chipped and yellowed.

Cream-framed backglass, white wooden-look border painted with red and dark blue diamonds: three small ones along the bottom edge, tall pointed motifs at each side. Inside is an airbrushed cartoon gambling den: flat mid-blue wall, three ceiling pendant lamps on pale diagonal patterned bands, small square window at right. Upper left, an illuminated three-window score panel reads blank, 8, 8, 2. Upper right, bold yellow block capitals with black outline read REY, small DE, then DIAMANTES, beside a red-haired woman in a sleeveless pink dress leaning on a yellow crate. Centre is a green oval card table covered in face-up playing cards, ringed by a woman in a white floral dress with bead necklaces, a man in a blue striped suit and brown top hat holding a card and a glass, and a blonde woman in a red strapless dress. A row of illuminated reel windows reads A 0 J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2. At the bottom edge a cowboy in a yellow hat and a laughing man in a blue cap crowd the frame.

Flat printed card-and-pool themed backglass panel on a cream-painted machine, its art set inside a wide off-white border decorated with large red and yellow card-suit diamonds. The background of the artwork is a bright sky-blue field scattered with small playing cards, a red diamond banner and confetti-like shapes. Across the top a white ribbon banner reads SENZA RIPETIZIONE ... DELLA PARTITA, with the middle words hidden by a red blotch of wear. Upper left sits a red lozenge containing four mechanical number windows showing 2.2 8 8. The main title SOLITAIRE arcs in large slanted yellow capitals with a green drop shadow, and beneath it three smaller white lines read BIGLIARDINO ELETTRICO COTTILER. Upper right is a small red-bordered white card reading LIMITE DI 250 PUNTEGGI. A long horizontal reel window strip spans the middle, its white reels printed with black capitals and red digits. The lower half shows a green baize pool table crowded with playing cards, a red-and-white billiard ball and a cue. Around it are painted figures in 1960s comic style: a red-haired woman in a pink sleeveless dress standing upright at right, a grinning dark-haired man in a red-and-white spotted shirt at lower right raising his arm, a blue-haired woman leaning over the table, a blonde woman in a yellow top, a red-haired youth in a yellow shirt, a grinning man in a green cap, and several other gamblers, plus a man at far left operating a machine. Card-suit pips border the bottom edge; the print is heavily scuffed with paint loss and cracks.

A square 1960s-style electro-mechanical backglass with a pale sky-blue background patterned with vertical rows of pale-green banknote borders and green banknote strips. Across the top, a white scroll banner reads SENZA RIPETIZIONE on the left and DELLA PARTITA on the right, split by a red cartouche carrying a manufacturer's mark. Below at upper left is a large red hexagon outlined in white, with a small white diamond above and below it, enclosing four worn rectangular instruction windows. The title HIT-A-CARD is printed diagonally in large yellow-and-white block letters on a green field at upper centre-right, with BIGLIARDINO ELETTRICO GOTTLIEB stacked beneath in white. A red-bordered white box at top right reads PUNTEGGI MAGGIORI ABBASSANO. The artwork shows a crowded gambling parlour: about ten fair-skinned cartoon characters in 1960s dress surround a blue baize card table strewn with playing cards, including six men and four women in red, green, pink and checkered clothing, one man in a green top hat and yellow jacket, one red-haired woman in a low-cut red bodice with a necklace, a blonde woman, a green-haired woman in yellow, a red-haired woman in a pink dress sitting on a golden barrow of gold coins, and a grinning man in a green cap and red checkered shirt at bottom right. A wide red-bordered, worn instruction window spans the lower middle.

A wide single-panel painted backglass in mid-century American gambling-hall style. The field is bright turquoise-teal overlaid with a repeating pattern of small white-and-red diamond lozenges and vertical rows of playing-card diamonds, giving a tiled wallpaper effect. Across the very top runs a white ribbon banner lettered in black "Manufactured by" on the left and "Retro Pinball LLC" on the right, with a small yellow circular emblem between them. Below and left sits a brown arrow-chevron shaped score window showing four white reels with the digits 1, 4, 9, 1. The title occupies the upper centre-right: a cursive orange-red script word with dark outline above huge gold-yellow block capitals KING, a small gold OF, and gold-yellow block capitals DIAMONDS. The scene below is a crowded casino floor: a green roulette wheel ringed with fanned playing cards sits centre, with a champagne bucket of bottles, a tray and a beer mug. Around it are at least twelve figures in 1970s evening dress. A red-haired woman in a fuchsia gown perches on a gold-upholstered bar stool at the right. On the left, a doorway shows two men, one in a green shirt, while a man in a white shirt leans over a table.