I need help identifying these billiard balls and what they are made of. Would someone let me know?

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timothysklugh

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I need help identifying these billiard balls and what they are made of. Would someone let me know?

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They are both cast phenolic resin, just like modern balls. You can check with heat if you don't mind a little damage. The cue ball might be from the 1960s to have so many cracks. The 11 could be that old as well. Maybe Hyatt balls -- predating Aramith. Neither is valuable unless you find a strange person who takes a fancy to the cue ball.
 
1960’s… We’re they all so subject to this much damage? I mean, I have seen balls from earlier times periods that did not come close to this kind of damage. Was this type of resin new at the time?
 
The 11 looks like normal wear and tear.

The CB looks like phenolic tip damage. That’s why they were banned. They didn’t come out until the 1990’s and were banned sometime in the 2000’s.

I haven’t seen the dark lines before though. Maybe dirt got in there?

Anyway, throw the CB in the trash.
 
Bob Jewett said:
There were half-moon cracks in cue balls long before phenolic tips were used. I think maybe the batch of phenolic was bad or something because not all cue balls got them.
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This seems to be more common in balls from the mid 60's through the early 70's, both Hyatt and Belgian.

Honestly, my view has always been that they were just played with more, cared for less, in harsher temperature variations.

My favorite version is the phenolic cue ball that has tons and tons of blue cue chalk in the half moons and it looks like scoop blue cheese
 
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