Antique Billiard Balls
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Antique Billiard Balls
Taken during Texas Antique Weekend in Round Top, Texas.
Here is a really cool shot of a bunch of antique billiard balls. These balls are well worn, and made from a range of different materials. You can see how some of them are cracked and old and probably not made from the material that today's pool balls are made from.
Antique Billiard Balls
The billiard room photo titled "Antique Billiard Balls" was taken by mybloodyself on 2008-04-22 17:02:08.000 and uploaded to flickr on 2008-04-22 17:02:08.000. It was retrieved from a public flickr feed on 2008-04-23 19:15:56.000. The accompanying article was written and published by the Billiards Forum. The publish date of the text content is found below.
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- Title: Antique Billiard Balls
- Author: billiardsforum (Billiards Forum)
- Published: 6/24/2008 11:21:09 AM
- Source: Flickr user contribution
Antique Billiard Balls Comments
Rootboy Slim from MA, United States on 11/4/2009 10:52:34 AMHere's some old billiard balls I got with an old Brunswick mini pool table I got at a yard sale. The pool table itself is about 2.5 feet by 5 feet and has folding wooden legs. The people at Brunswick seemed to think it was made around 1918 or so.
The accompanying billiard balls are about 1.5 inches in diameter and though they are kind of cracked and faded they still have a lot of action in them. There's no striped balls - they are all solid colors.
I'm trying to find out if they are the right size for the mini pool table. I'm looking to restore it to a more playable condition. Right now the cushions seem dead or the balls are too small. I'm not really sure where the ball should hit the cushion... Are the balls supposed to strike the pool table cushion at the halfway mark?
I'm a new user so I've got a lot to see on the site but these antique billiard balls caught my eye first.
Jerry Lee from IN, United States on 12/2/2010 1:37:49 PM
I have a red, white, and blue cue ball. The first time I saw this type of cue ball was in the early 1960s. It is red and blue on each side and white in the center and it measures 2 1/4 inches. The white stripe is 1 inch wide. I wonder if it would be considered antique?
djl92 from Salamanca, NY on 5/24/2011 8:10:36 PM
@rootboy-slim, I have a set of old pool balls just like the ones in your picture, except they are the full size 2 1/8". They have developed the same cracking around the center. Do you know what they are made of?
Bob Boyer from Rexmont, PA on 2/10/2012 3:56:24 PM
@rootboy-slim - I have have a set of pool balls just like that too. Do you know if they are worth anything?
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