Expert: Rodger Knutson - 3/27/2010

Question
We have a Bally Beauty Pinball Model #366...the backboard is in excellent condition; however, the playing board is in fair to poor condition (not sure of how it would be rated).  What would you estimate the value to be for this...a ballpark figure.  Thank you for your time.

Answer
Hi Jim,

Verry Sorry for the delay, something is wrong with my allexperts account here, and I am not getting notified of questions waiting for me here. Sorry about that, and I hope something can be done about this soon. Anyway, I did some looking into your Bally pinball machine. I can't find it listed in any of the available price guides and I could only find mention of it in one book and on one web site. Bally made two games with the same name, one in 1952 and yours made in 1940. Value of the 1952 model is $300.00. I did some research on the values of other Bally pinballs made the year before, in 1939 and found two different models made that year. Both of these models had a current value of 300.00 each as of 2010. So, based on what I can find all around your model, my guess as to value of yours would be in the $300.00 area as far as I can tell. The one book that has something about this machine in it, I don't have. But the name of the book is: "Tilt" The pinball book, Home Maintenance, History, Hot Tips, Tolbert (ISBN 0-934422-02-8) and there is a black and white photo of it on page 83 acording to my information and the web site that has information on your machine is at:
http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=215
I hope this is some help to you, it's all the information I can find on it right now at this time. The play-field condition is one very important part of a pinball machine as far as grading values go, a poor play-field can really hurt a machines value. If you go to sell this machine I would start at around 600.00 and see what kind of offerers you get, just to be sure your on the safe side of it's real value.

Thank You

sincerely

Rodger Knutson
http://www.coinslots.com