Sharing my old Brunswick table

garczar said:
Got a follow-up msg from Derrick at BilliardRestor. He said the current market for antique tables like this is extremely flat. Said the op's table 'might' be worth up to $7,500. Also said that fully restored ones are topping out around in the 35-50,00 range.
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A pool table has an inherent problem as a collectable. Size, weight and utility. I don't know any pool table collectors. It's value is would be more novelty or history. A pool table to the average person is to play on.

Given that, they would certainly appreciate an old table, but would not want to own one, not even restored. They would invest in a new modern table they could use for years. I can't see getting a table restoring it and expecting any appreciation in years to come.

It value is in its use. Again making a new table, or new meaning more contemporary a better investment. It will be enjoyed for many years.
Just my opinion.
 
In all the years we've been on AZB, I don't recall any member ever buying an antique like this, and writing about it. The people here are the biggest pool phanatics in the world. You'd figure one of us would have the combo of "love pool, love antiques, has money to burn". But I don't think its happened.

I think the only market for antique tables is in a library room of a mansion by a person who doesn't play pool at all.
 
iusedtoberich said:
In all the years we've been on AZB, I don't recall any member ever buying an antique like this, and writing about it. The people here are the biggest pool phanatics in the world. You'd figure one of us would have the combo of "love pool, love antiques, has money to burn". But I don't think its happened.

I think the only market for antique tables is in a library room of a mansion by a person who doesn't play pool at all.
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kinda agree here. these tables are more art/furniture than something to use. that being said i'd love to have a Kling with rails re-done to 4.5 corners. Most beautiful table ever imo.
 
iusedtoberich said:
In all the years we've been on AZB, I don't recall any member ever buying an antique like this, and writing about it. The people here are the biggest pool phanatics in the world. You'd figure one of us would have the combo of "love pool, love antiques, has money to burn". But I don't think its happened.

I think the only market for antique tables is in a library room of a mansion by a person who doesn't play pool at all.
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Fwiw, I fit two of those, just missing the money to burn :D
 
I don't think there is any way this table was originally a pool table and later converted to a snooker table. Why do we go with complicated theories instead of simply it was always a snooker table?


IDK when snooker slate cuts became standardized, but if you go from at least 1950 to today, this slate is a snooker slate. The slate edge radius on the white line is like that on snooker, not pool. The curvature of the yellow line is like that on snooker. Pool would be offset radially outward more like the blue line. None of that could have been changed if it was converted from pool to snooker, because it would have required adding material to the slate. Plus, who in their right mind would have done that? Go with the obvious and simplest answer that this is currently and always was a snooker table.
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