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The wood work needs to have a serious once over. The photos dont' show it well, but the veneer is flaking a bit due to being taken from a very humid environment to one that's drier. The rails and metal feet could use some attention as well. The rail bumpers and cloth is completely mint however...

Thanks! I eventually want to get it up to snuff, and ya it'd be as original as possible, if I want a modern table, I'd buy one. Just have to find someone to restore it, and a house that I can put it in without it going through the floor :D

:D Nah nowhere close. I thikn it was just we needed a cover and that was the only one we could find that would fit that wasn't crazy loose at the time. The cover we had before was in really bad shape, like borderline tattered.

Tried a search with that data with Google's AI, and it returned something about The Brunswick-Balke-Collender "Brilliant" (and its very close relative, the "Nonpareil"), apparently made in sizes such as 6x12, 5x10, and 4.5x9, known as a Professional Ninth. Don't know how full of it this is; it...

Did the Monarch come as a snooker table? I'll be hoenst, outside of the name and it's unusual "legs", I know little of it, and what little I knew I learned from my grandfather. DId they have a snooker variant? I know the measurements are 4.5" by 9"

Ya I have no illusions of ever going on any sort of tour or even playing competitively. End game is having it as a centerpiece for a mancave, something I can invite friends over to play on. It'd be original, nothing newish at all. Making it newish would be like taking the Mona Lisa and spray...

From how the story goes, my grandfather got it off a guy back in the 50's. Considering it's Canada, the odds of snooker pockets would be a bit higher back then if one had been replaced. I wonder if it'd be worth looking into replacing them, or if they were sold like that in Canada, or if the...

No offense taken, just the pics I had and wanted to share. Sadly it's in storage and the possession situation is a bit "fun", so it might be a wait.

Thought I'd share my table on here. From what my grandfather told me of it, it's an old Monarch model, over a century old, and as far as he knew at the time, he only knew of three in existence, and they were all in Pennsylvania. I'm pretty sure there's more then that, but it's definitely not one...

Hello all from Ontario, Canada. Found this forum quite a while ago but finally got approved. Looking for help with restoring my pool table, and sharing what I have.

So I have a pool table that's pretty old that I got from my grandfather decades ago. Finally have the money to fix it, but all the people that I've seen that do this work are in the US. Is there anyone that does pool table restoration in Canada? Specifically Southern Ontario? For reference, this...