Glamor

Glamor, produced by D. Gottlieb & Company in July 1951, is a rare single-player electro-mechanical pinball machine, with a confirmed production run of just 300 units. Designed by Wayne Neyens with artwork by Roy Parker, it carries Gottlieb's popular Girls - Glamour - Women theme of the era.

The playfield features four flippers, two pop bumpers, eight passive bumpers, a kick-out hole, and a safety gate between the flippers. One curious detail: while other Gottlieb games from 1951 used a drop coin chute, Glamor used a coin slide last seen on Madison Square Gardens from June 1950, thirteen games earlier. Historian Gordon Hasse says production of the game was delayed from that period because it was deemed to not be a great-playing game, which likely explains both the throwback hardware and the small run.

With its low production numbers and its unusual backstory, Glamor is an intriguing piece of early-1950s Gottlieb history, offering collectors a glimpse of a game the factory itself hesitated to release.