>Brunswick-Balke-Collander Co.
>Pfister (6) leg model Mahagony
>Serial # 87248
>Has Rosewood Rails
>Has all chalk trays in working order.
>Key Locks for “Convertible Rail System”
>Has Matching set of Rails for Billiards (RARE)
>Matching Ball Rack
>Matching Cue Stick Rack
>Several Antique Sets of Balls and Cue Sticks included.
>I even have the old wooden sliding score keeping system that mounts on the wall....although I don’t have it currently mounted.
This Billiard Table has been in my family since 1928 when my grandparents bought a house in Chicago from a Glass Mfg CEO. My Grandmother god bless her....would not buy the house unless the Billiard Table came with it.
I grew up playing on this table....it has always been in temperature controlled environment since being in our Family. I have always had this professionally taken down and set up when we have moved. I have built houses Around this table.....my wife thinks I am crazy !
>I think the only thing that I am missing is that someone once told me, originally, a lot of these big tables were normally only found in pool halls....and that there was box that would roll up under the table to hold the rails.
>Our family has always hung the rails on the wall (very gently....with felt tipped edges on the brackets).
The elderly gentleman that has set this table up twice in the past 20 years has told me that the slate came from Pennsylvania....which has not been mined since the 1870’s.....and that he thought the table was from that time Period....even though the patent states 1884 (he said patents were obtained several years after the fact). He said he Has only run across a table like this once in the past 45 years.
The Table is in excellent shape. I think my grandfather had it restored In the 1960’s....my father was meticulous about this table.....and I have been too.
>Pfister (6) leg model Mahagony
>Serial # 87248
>Has Rosewood Rails
>Has all chalk trays in working order.
>Key Locks for “Convertible Rail System”
>Has Matching set of Rails for Billiards (RARE)
>Matching Ball Rack
>Matching Cue Stick Rack
>Several Antique Sets of Balls and Cue Sticks included.
>I even have the old wooden sliding score keeping system that mounts on the wall....although I don’t have it currently mounted.
This Billiard Table has been in my family since 1928 when my grandparents bought a house in Chicago from a Glass Mfg CEO. My Grandmother god bless her....would not buy the house unless the Billiard Table came with it.
I grew up playing on this table....it has always been in temperature controlled environment since being in our Family. I have always had this professionally taken down and set up when we have moved. I have built houses Around this table.....my wife thinks I am crazy !
>I think the only thing that I am missing is that someone once told me, originally, a lot of these big tables were normally only found in pool halls....and that there was box that would roll up under the table to hold the rails.
>Our family has always hung the rails on the wall (very gently....with felt tipped edges on the brackets).
The elderly gentleman that has set this table up twice in the past 20 years has told me that the slate came from Pennsylvania....which has not been mined since the 1870’s.....and that he thought the table was from that time Period....even though the patent states 1884 (he said patents were obtained several years after the fact). He said he Has only run across a table like this once in the past 45 years.
The Table is in excellent shape. I think my grandfather had it restored In the 1960’s....my father was meticulous about this table.....and I have been too.
