Le Dentu arcade machines

[redwine]

LE DENTU / DISTRIBUTEURS AUTOMATIQUES

They produced a number of coin operated machines in the early 1900s such as: Le Dédale, La Chasse, L'Entraineur, La Rafale, Le Jeu de Cartes & Sus à L'Ennemi.  Info gleaned from
here

30mm
7.86g
Zinc
Consimilar

[Figleaf]

 

Le Dentu - the toothed one
Le Dédale - the labyrinth
La Chasse - the hunt
L'Entraineur - the trainer
La Rafale - the salvo
Le Jeu de Cartes - the pack of cards or the card game
Sus à L'Ennemi - have at you now!

Peter

[redwine]

Thank You Peter
And appreciate the lesson in Shakespeare 

[malj1]

A very nice piece from Raymond Le Dentu - Orléans, France.  ...1907 - 1914...

The machines would be operated by French 10 centimes or British pennies as well as the 30mm tokens.

[Figleaf]

  His ancestors must have had the sort of dental job that even impresses Bart.

Peter

[redwine]

Here's a blank borrowed from ebay.  I hadn't noticed the wording in the scroll
Left: CHODORSE??
Right: PARIS

[redwine]

The following weigh 8.7-9g. All consimilar and same size as above.

DISTRIBUTEURS / AUTOMATIQUES / LE DENTU / THEVENON & CO
DISTRIBUTEURS / AUTOMATIQUES / H.SPANAGEL / THEVENON & CO
DISTRIBUTEURS / AUTOMATIQUES / THEVENON & CO

[redwine]

Nice to see THEVENON are still going 
http://www.thevenonsa.com/produits.php

[malj1]

The following weigh 8.7-9g. All consimilar and same size as above.

DISTRIBUTEURS / AUTOMATIQUES / LE DENTU / THEVENON & CO
DISTRIBUTEURS / AUTOMATIQUES / H.SPANAGEL / THEVENON & CO
DISTRIBUTEURS / AUTOMATIQUES / THEVENON & CO

We have met the second name DISTRIBUTEURS / AUTOMATIQUES / H.SPANAGEL / THEVENON & CO before, see Old French machine tokens - Spanagel

[redwine]

Thanks for the reminder Mal 
I'm a little confused by '& Co' - not very French!
Was there a UK offshoot?

[malj1]

Could it say  THEVENON & Cie?  not clear for me to see.

From the web page today ETABLISSEMENTS THEVENON - Siège social et usine - B.P. 18 - 71590 GERGY - FRANCE

[redwine]

Definitely 'and Co.'  With the o in superscript and underlined.

[redwine]

Best I can do

[malj1]

I too have one on my page.

[redwine]

The SAINT-GAUDENS Syndicat du Commerce & de l'Industrie 25c 1922 (Aluminium) features the signature THEVENON & Co [Elie Ref. 1.3]