Record Purse

Record Purse is a single-player electro-mechanical (EM) payout machine manufactured by J. H. Keeney and Company Incorporated in December 1938. As a payout machine, it dispensed coins directly to winning players rather than awarding replays, a common format for the era before such machines fell under stricter gambling regulations in many jurisdictions.

Very little specific detail about Record Purse's playfield layout, scoring mechanism, or artwork has been documented. As with many payout-style EM games of the 1930s, it would have relied on period-typical scoring elements such as bumpers and targets -- not flippers, which would not be introduced to pinball until nearly a decade later, in 1947.

No designer, artist, or theme is credited for Record Purse in surviving records, leaving it as one of many under-documented Depression-era Keeney machines whose specifics have been lost to time.