:wink:I was looking for something else and ran across this in a BBCCo pricelist from 1913. White chalk?
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Might make a nice poster for someone's man cave.
Excellent. Nabbed it.
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How about this piece of chalk. This is a piece of chalk from the Final match used by Wimpy Lassiter when he won the Johnson City 14.1 in 1964.Wimpy gave away a lot of his trophy's but kept the Brunswick balls and chalk from the finals. I placed the chalk on his 5x10 Gandy and took the picture.
Thanks for the images. I would guess that is Geo(rge) Wright. I imagine the white chalk would have left very visible marks on the table. In a way that's good because the players would be aware of what they were leaving behind.Sorry I did not realize the images were so big
That's got to be some of the rarest chalk in the world. I thought I had scored well with a half-box of IPT chalk.... How about this piece of chalk. This is a piece of chalk from the Final match used by Wimpy Lassiter when he won the Johnson City 14.1 in 1964.Wimpy gave away a lot of his trophy's but kept the Brunswick balls and chalk from the finals. I placed the chalk on his 5x10 Gandy and took the picture.
If you want a much higher resolution version, send me email.
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If there are any chalk collectors out there, here is an Ebay seller who seems to have dozens of brands, some from the 1800s.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/dino991/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=&rt=nc&_dmd=2