Landau versus Gottlieb

While in the Bay Area, I visited SF's Museum of Asian Art,  where this grotesque, beautiful piece of maximum conspicuous consumption was on display. 

It's a silver Landau made for the Maharaja of Bhavnagar around the turn of the last century.  Needless to say, I was utterly appalled by the waste and extravagance though dazzled by the workmanship.

 Afterward, I took a trip to Alameda's Pinball Museum. Here's a bank of classic 50's Gottliebs.

I played this magnificent piece of craftsmanship

and, still a master of the flipper, won three (3) free games.

I can't remember whether the silver coach was owned by this couple of dandies (also in the Asian Art Museum) or one of their cousins, 

but no one who looked like either a maharaja or maharani was playing with Gottlieb's silver balls.  I didn't spy anyone at the pinball museum who was nearly so well accoutered.  

Comments

[Kyla]

When can you come to Lyons and play pinball with us?

http://www.lyonspinball.com/intro.htm

[Otis J. Brown]

Well done! You are to be commended for scoring three free games after such an extended period on the inactive list. Your feat brings back memories of squandered evenings in the Game Room when -- between ping-pong games -- you were a key member of our four-man pinball squad (Plunge, Left Flip, Right Flip, and Finagle). The machine we played in those halcyon days wasn't a Gottlieb; it was Williams' Three Deuces.