snookered_again
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I noticed these for sale in some old and very fuzzy and hard to read Brunswick balke collender adverising.
It seems to be an odd duck and Im not finding a lot of info on it.
it had shelves and a wicker bucket. so youd store all your balls on the rack but then you could pull a "trigger" and it caused the shelves to all tilt,
the balls then run along the slope and at the end of the slope there is a hole so they fall to the next level down and back tot he other side , they all stream into the bucket and you can take and dump that onto the pool table.
while its a weird idea I thought it interesting and wondered about making a repro. I wondered if someone might have a pic, or actually own one? I can imagine with the clay balls of the time, that the knocking about wasn't great and I doubt the weird idea took off very far.
It probably wouldn't really hurt modern ones. it would make a neat display if you did own a set of "show" balls.
this one is the closest I could find.
I miss search engines that actually worked, now they just point to ads that want to sell me stuff , darn google and it's monopoly.
one thing I cant; figure out about these ball racks that someone may explain.
A lot of these antique ball racks seem to number the shelves from 1 to 8 , What did the numbering represent? why 8 ?
It seems to be an odd duck and Im not finding a lot of info on it.
it had shelves and a wicker bucket. so youd store all your balls on the rack but then you could pull a "trigger" and it caused the shelves to all tilt,
the balls then run along the slope and at the end of the slope there is a hole so they fall to the next level down and back tot he other side , they all stream into the bucket and you can take and dump that onto the pool table.
while its a weird idea I thought it interesting and wondered about making a repro. I wondered if someone might have a pic, or actually own one? I can imagine with the clay balls of the time, that the knocking about wasn't great and I doubt the weird idea took off very far.
It probably wouldn't really hurt modern ones. it would make a neat display if you did own a set of "show" balls.
this one is the closest I could find.
I miss search engines that actually worked, now they just point to ads that want to sell me stuff , darn google and it's monopoly.
one thing I cant; figure out about these ball racks that someone may explain.
A lot of these antique ball racks seem to number the shelves from 1 to 8 , What did the numbering represent? why 8 ?