Brunswick Centennial Pool Table

It has the formica rails??! I have never seen one with out real rosewood rails. Must have been the last version made. Makes it worth FAR less to me.


Trent from Toledo
 
Centennial

The rails appear to be Formica. Real rosewood was found on tables of this era.. hard to be sure from the photos.

Mark griffin
 
Is it possible they are anniversary rails? or maybe a case of what happened with later gold crowns, parts merged from one design to another?

Beautiful table. Thanks for sharing.
 
xianmacx said:
Is it possible they are anniversary rails? or maybe a case of what happened with later gold crowns, parts merged from one design to another?

Beautiful table. Thanks for sharing.
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Anniversary rails were walnut, and yes, those rails are the rosewood formica rails.
 
I don't think the rails are formica... plus, I have never heard of formica rails for a centennial. But I've been wrong before. It looks like the ones we played on in Texas.

Anyone interested could ask a question(s) on Ebay.
 
I can tell by the pictures that they are formica, there is no wood grain if you look very close... Real rosewood rails are by far prettier, but, I have noticed a lot of Centennial rail sets have a couple rails that "SAP" wood was used, the color is so far off it surprises me that they would have used it. they butcherblocked the rosewood rails of course and you would see that as well if they were real wood.

Trent
 
trentfromtoledo said:
I can tell by the pictures that they are formica, there is no wood grain if you look very close... Real rosewood rails are by far prettier, but, I have noticed a lot of Centennial rail sets have a couple rails that "SAP" wood was used, the color is so far off it surprises me that they would have used it. they butcherblocked the rosewood rails of course and you would see that as well if they were real wood.

Trent
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The picture with the Brunswick badge on the headrail has scratches in the formica! Personally I prefer no grain fillers or glossy anything on nice rosewood or walnut rails. I want the wood to look like wood and NOT FORMICA. Clear satin poly sprayed over the 60/40 red mahogany/ sedona red stain mix!
 
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this is the same as my anniversary

Does anyone know the years that Brunswick used this badge on the end rails? I've been trying to nail down the date on mine but havent been very successful.

And as far as the size I didn't "do the math" I just assumed the other guy was correct.

Mistake duly noted!

nice looking table to be sure


realkingcobra said:
Nuff said.
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xianmacx said:
Glen, Do you think this is a frankentable or centennials did come in formica at the end of their run?
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I looked it up and the Centennial could be ordered with the formica rails as an up-charge. To me it is a good enough looking table that I could not justify the ten to fifteen thousand dollars that the tables with the rosewood rails seem to be going for.
 
Back in the late 70's,while wandering around abit, I was playing in Columbia , there was a room that had 12 of these tables. Wonder if this one was one from there. This table has the 2 piece long rails, instead of the early 1 piece long rail. Not sure if they ever made them with fomica covers.
 
OLD NO 9 said:
I looked it up and the Centennial could be ordered with the formica rails as an up-charge. To me it is a good enough looking table that I could not justify the ten to fifteen thousand dollars that the tables with the rosewood rails seem to be going for.
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Interesting. Where did you see that info? I checked on the brunswick history site and could not find any info on rail material...

Ian
 
I talked to the man & he said it was wood. He just wanted it gone. It was sold locally.
 
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