"Hamburger" speckled balls....
These also came in various sizes from full 2 1/4" down to tiny toy size... I have owned 3 sizes of these, but I like to trade the parlor balls down to the smallest size I can get for space reasons so I downsize traded for the tiny ones. These balls came with all 15 balls the same color, including a cueball made to look the same. Nobody has found them pictured in a catalog, but collectors think that there was an economy set with no numbers, which would have been pretty much 15 hamburger cueballs. All-red or economy sets were a mystery for a while as to their purpose, but then an old A.E. Schmidt catalog surfaced which explained that bank pool players used to favor them having no markings. As you can see, they look like uncooked hamburger meat.
The only set I have ever seen in the box, presumed to be original, was the "Ivorette" ball box.
These also came in various sizes from full 2 1/4" down to tiny toy size... I have owned 3 sizes of these, but I like to trade the parlor balls down to the smallest size I can get for space reasons so I downsize traded for the tiny ones. These balls came with all 15 balls the same color, including a cueball made to look the same. Nobody has found them pictured in a catalog, but collectors think that there was an economy set with no numbers, which would have been pretty much 15 hamburger cueballs. All-red or economy sets were a mystery for a while as to their purpose, but then an old A.E. Schmidt catalog surfaced which explained that bank pool players used to favor them having no markings. As you can see, they look like uncooked hamburger meat.
The only set I have ever seen in the box, presumed to be original, was the "Ivorette" ball box.
