The change in design from pocket to gully came about largely for commercial reasons in pool halls and bars, where a game of pool required loose change inserted in a coin slot to release the balls from the tray. In the 19th century most tables featured drop pockets whereas contemporary tables feature a “gully return” that captures the sunk balls in a collecting tray. Early original pool tables were made with only four pockets.
In this case, the billiard cloth was green in color and in a decent shape that correlated with the table’s age and usage.Īs is typical of most pool tables, the claimant’s Monroe featured four corner pockets and two side pockets. The traditional green color of the cloth represents the grass from the origins as a lawn game. The original table also featured cushion rails (the inner sides of a table) made from vulcanized rubber to cause billiard balls to rebound. The Monroe edition features a playing surface (the “bed”) made of three pieces of slate, regulation size of one-inch thick, with joints secured by brass dowels and sockets.
Enservio’s research found that these attributes matched up with the claimant’s Monroe table. The sides are dowelled and bolted into the legs and the table is made rigid by cross stretchers. The legs are made in the square style, glued up of 5-ply stock and reinforced with glue blocks in all corners. The Monroe is a known and desirable pool table “designed to meet a medium-priced demand” according to the company’s 1926 product catalog. A storied brand, Brunswick was founded in 1845 and it was known that Abraham Lincoln bought a Brunswick table in 1850. The team conducted further research and found the table to be most likely the Monroe edition, first issued by Brunswick in 1926 and presumably named after James Monroe (1758–1831), the fifth POTUS and last president among the Founding Fathers. As is often the case, when billiard supply companies visit a home or business to work on a table they sometimes apply their own commercial name plates.
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Marvel sells numbered pool balls to operators and distributors, as well as playing surfaces that operators can install to bring used older tables up to date. Upon investigation, Enservio found that Marvel Billiard was a supply house and not a producer. Photo Credit: World Champion Jeannette Lee of Black Widow Billiards on a Mosconi table. The insured provided a photograph of the claimed pool table and informed the team of a plate on the table which read, “Marvel Billiard and Bowling Supply Company,” which the insured believed was the table’s manufacturer. There are other variants that make use of obstacles and targets, like bumper pool.Įnservio Select was called upon to appraise a six-pocket, nine-foot, gully-return billiards table with square legs, a straight sided cabinet, mother-of-pearl inlay, and pin-striping claimed to be worth $20,000. The third is Snooker and English billiards, classified separately from pool based on culture and terminology. There are three major subdivisions of games within cue sports: Carom billiards refer to playing on tables without pockets “Pool” is the world’s most popular cue sport played on six-pocket tables varying in length from seven to nine feet.
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