If the balls were ivory, they would have wandered off for other purposes or cracked in a hundred years or so and then been reused. I wonder how long the table was used after the French revolution.
... to improve the chances of you (or any sponsor) to never having to pay it out, I even would ante up the challenge, that only the first to get perfect score in both drills gets it
There is no "sponsor" other than the Billiard University (owned by me and Randy Russell).
How much are you willing to offer for the first person to get a perfect score in both (or either of the) drills? We can have that be an AZB-only bonus prize. You might be the only AZB user with enough dedication and skill to go for it. Although, if you offer a bonus prize for the Follow Matrix Drill, I will definitely put in a little extra effort to try to be the first to 100.