Timkrieger
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I recently got in contact with a family that was looking to sell a Brunswick Centennial pool table. The table had originally been purchased and used in Chicago. This table was in the same family since the 1940’s. The original owner worked with the Ziff-Davis publishing company. The family history, as told by the owners, was this table was the table bought and used for Willie Mosconi’s photo shoot for his red book, On Pocket Billiards. The original owner ended up with the table after the photo shoot. Along with the table in storage, the family had multiple copies of the first edition hardback version of Mosconi’s book. They included one with my purchase of the table. They had other material in boxes being stored from the publishing company including other sports books on golf, football, other sports, seem to be similar to Willie Mosconi‘s book. Most of the other boxed material were computer books from the same publishing company. I looked through the boxes to try to find any kind of letter or anything else that would document that this table was the actual one that had been used by Mosconi for the photos in his book. The woman said she knew without a doubt from her mother and grandfather that this was definitely the same table used in the book. The table eventually made its way out to the west coast with one of the family members. It was being stored for at least the last 32 years at a house on a cattle ranch where one of the granddaughters of the original owner has been living. I plan to do some more research to see if there’s anyway to try to tie it back to the Mosconi book. I’ll also restore the table. Centennials are beautiful tables, but even better if it’s got a connection to such an iconic book. Here’s a few pictures of the table parts in my living room as they are today before any restoration work. I’ll post more pictures in the future once I get the restoration started.
