This is an extremely great working 1931 Wiffle Pinball machine, it is referred to as the first pinball machine created. See image's and read more below. email or call show contact details asking $900 OBO.

　　Whiffle Board/ IPD No. 3552/ June, 1931/ 1 Player

　　Maker: Automatic Industries, Incorporated, of Youngstown, Ohio, USA (1).

　　Type: Pure Mechanical (PM).

　　Notable Features: Glass play field cover, round elevator, coin mechanism. Game uses 10 rounds which are agate marbles about 1/2 inch in diameter, 9 white and one red, the red marble counting double.

　　Principle by: Arthur L. Paulin.

　　Design by: Earl Froom, Arthur L. Paulin.

　　In converting Arthur L. Paulin's bagatelle design to an automatic coin-operated device, salesperson Earl Froom resolved a number of concerns, consisting of the best ways to separate the player from the playfield (glass), the best ways to recirculate the rounds after play (playfield baffle/shuttle and round elevator), and the best ways to collect money (coin mechanism). What resulted was a video game of such wild popularity in the United States that it captured the coin-op world by surprise and caused countless replicas by other business, leading into the pinball patent wars.

　　Whiffle is the game most typically related to the birth of pinball, however according to the Encyclopedia of Pinball Vol 1, the first real pinball was Charles P. Young's "Coin Game Board" trade stimulator of 1892, which was likewise glass-covered and coin-operated. The concept to add coin mechanisms to devices came even earlier, from British inventor Percival Everett, but it was Londoner Henry John Gerrard Pessers who was very first to put a coin slot on a marble video game, patented September 29, 1889.