I know my pocket castings had dates on them. You should check to see there. But I agree with it being a GC1. Figure 8's give it away....
Can You Identify This Gold Crown?
- Thread starter Mike the Beginner
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That date represents the year the mold was made, not the part itself. Brunswick didn't date stamp their parts.
Later I's had floating nuts too.
I'm curious to know your reasoning.
If you are referring to the stain: as Trent stated, someone stripped the paint, and stained everything. If you look closely at the apron, you can see the three pieces of wood laminated together. Later Gold Crowns (II and III) were painted a rosewood stain color, making the laminations invisible. Additionally, you can see some of the original white paint on the back sides of the apron pieces.
If you are referring to the aluminum extrusions: the long extrusions were only present on the earliest of Gold Crown I's, as was the case for the plastic nameplate.
This looks to me like a mid-60's model Gold Crown I. From the pictures posted, there is no reason to believe anything otherwise. It looks like the date on the pocket casting shows a manufacture date of 63. This only pertains to the casting itself, which could have been used throughout the mid-60's. Hard to tell an actual date that the table was manufactured.
Are you talking about the rail blinds which attach to the rails and hide the slate, frame, and bottom side of rails or are you talking about the plastic pieces that attach rail blinds to hide the ball return? As far as I am aware the only difference on these 2 things between GCI and GCII is that the early GCI's had a full length aluminum extrusion for hanging the rail blinds on the rails, sometime in the middle of the GCI production run they made these aluminum extrusions several short pieces instead of full length which ran thru at least the end of GCII production.
Out of curiosity, did Brunswick date stamp the slates? I know it may have no meaning or bearing what year the table could be, as I imagine slates could have been swapped along the way. I ask this because my GC4 had a ink stamp of the production month and year.
