Found some stuff today :O
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Sweet snag! Antique store? I love hunting for old stuff
Yes, found some stuff in a dusty box under a table with no price. The carom balls were marked $1.00, ha.
Anyone know anything about the tips or rack? I've never seen any of them. Rough guess on age? The Brunswick tips have the curly B logo still
Bump for the night crowd. Any thoughts? 
Ivory ferrule, yes?
Yes it is. I'm pretty excited about the Triangles and the ferrule. They are extremely meaty and firm. Look to have been very well preserved. I have them listed for sale but may keep them.
Does anyone have any thoughts on the Triangles or Blue Ribbons? I've never seen either box or brand before. I found a mention of the Blue Ribbon tips in the 1939 Brunswick catalog, they are a premium tip according to Brunswick, have not tried one on a cue yet. Anyone ever played these?
When Kieckhefer made Triangle chalk, they used the phrase "King of them all".
I don't much about this stuff, but I hope that helps.
Fatz
I don't much about this stuff, but I hope that helps.
Fatz
Oh that's right!! I wonder if/when they made tips.. Hmm.
Oh. I remember those peas, but can't say what was the originating history behind them.
The game I played and used to call it was 'check pool.' We each drew 2-3 peas that represented the money balls (kept hidden from the others). The object of the game was to sink the numbers you picked and the first to sink all three won the game. It was a rotation game, so the legal hits were the lowest ball, highest ball and 8b. If the 8b was already in, then you had the option of using the next up/down from 8 (i.e., 7b or 9b was now a legal hit).
It was a fun game especially if you pulled the 1,8,15. Just let the 1b hang in the pocket and someone else will make it in for you. Or when you see someone trying a wild 1-4 combo, you knew he had the 4 pill. Good times.
Why we called it check pool? When a ball that someone had the pill for went in, we would say 'check 1, check 2, game.'
-Doug
The game I played and used to call it was 'check pool.' We each drew 2-3 peas that represented the money balls (kept hidden from the others). The object of the game was to sink the numbers you picked and the first to sink all three won the game. It was a rotation game, so the legal hits were the lowest ball, highest ball and 8b. If the 8b was already in, then you had the option of using the next up/down from 8 (i.e., 7b or 9b was now a legal hit).
It was a fun game especially if you pulled the 1,8,15. Just let the 1b hang in the pocket and someone else will make it in for you. Or when you see someone trying a wild 1-4 combo, you knew he had the 4 pill. Good times.
Why we called it check pool? When a ball that someone had the pill for went in, we would say 'check 1, check 2, game.'
-Doug
I don't know, but it could be a clue. Tweeten bought out Kieckhefer at some point. I talked to a guy at Tweeten once. He was a really nice guy and would probably answer your question if he could. Tweeten has been in his family for like 3 or 4 generations. Just Google Tweeten, it's in Chicago.
Fatz
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The pills are for Kelly Pool. It was the Sunday afternoon game before 3-Ball. We played 15 ball rotation. $1.00 on the fifteen. $.50 on each pill. Make your number and everyone paid you $.50. Make someone else's ball they paid you $.50. Four or five players in game.
I'm familiar with pea pool, but I did not recognize their age. I think they are the black fiber peas from the 1940s Brunswick catalogs. Anyone have a Bulldog bottle for me? ;D
The tips are from the 40's to 60's era. I believe they were made from the hide of a Water Buffalo, which was the best leather available at the time. The "chrome" tips came from the underbelly of the animal which was a lighter color and softer. I remember seeing them used in the 60's by cue repair guys who came to Johnston City. They would charge you $5 to put a new tip on your cue, an outrageous price in that day. :smile:
Yes, Jay, you are right! $5 was an outrageously high price for a tip. I worked for a while in an old time poolroom in NJ while I attended Rutgers and I charged $1 for a new tip. Guys were complaining about that .....they expected a new cue tip for free because they were regular customers. We charged 90 cents an hour for two players. After "The Hustler" came out, the owner of the room raised the price to a buck an hour and the guys said they wouldn't play there anymore. But they did because every other room began to charge even more. Oh man, do I sound old or what?
Karl Kantrowitz
I worked at Varsity 8-Ball in Denver, 1967, we charged a penny a minute.
No booze, no food, and now looking back at all of the characters in that place, it could of been a mob front.
I was 15, played pool most of the time, and I didn't have a clue what went on in there.
We played 9-ball, pushout, 25-cents on the 5, 50-cents on the 9.