Authentic photos of 1920's B'wick gully pockets?

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Have scanned just about every applicable catalog on Brunswick's Library/historical record. Each shows the various patent ball returns (Gully pockets) but unless i am missing something, all but a couple of the color table images is a billiard, or a drop pocket.

http://antiquetables.brunswickbilliards.com/our_rich_history/antique_tables/patentimproved.html

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This table has what i'm looking for but detail is difficult to make out

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There are some photos of dealer or eBay sales tables, but they either have drop pockets again, or the pocket faces look poorly considered (Ugly :smile:) with the rest of the design. Hard to believe they were as original Brunswick.

The table my wife got a couple weeks ago (long term/fall project) was clearly delivered from the factory with the Brunswick "lightening tubular ball return", but converted to drop pockets. Maybe i'm just exceptionally dumb, but would at least like to understand the options for restoring it to original - unless the original pocket faces were as, let's say "strange" as some of the modern online restorations strike me.

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Whoa!
really like the looks of that! - always thought i might want an Exposition, which uses the same pockets with figured sycamore inlay in the reliefs/lower areas of the metal and even more of a 'Deco look. As with many, both wife & I would have been thrilled to stumble on an Anniversary.

Unfortunately, or "be that as it may" the one we stumbled on is only a few years older, but a much earlier esthetic, 4 leg Royal. I could maybe make pocket shields like that, but it would probably look a little off on the more "antique" looking Royal? Thinking, though......

http://brunswick.pastperfectonline.com/library/2200B789-96AE-42B9-A49C-672943475368

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