I need help to evaluate a set of balls

[Bob Jewett]

Quick search has a ball that is cracked but in much better physical appearance than any of these and it is selling for $10.

Do you have a link?

 

[Frankenstroke]

What's "Compo-Ivory"?[/QUOte

Probably "snake oil speak" for fake. Johnnyt

A cue salesman described a cue's inlays to me as "bone-ivory".

Red flags were flying all over. FAKE. FAKE. FAKE.

 

[Bob Jewett]

A cue salesman described a cue's inlays to me as "bone-ivory". Red flags were flying all over. FAKE. FAKE. FAKE.

Ivory is a special case now. For example, Ebay does not permit ivory items to be offered, so sellers have taken to calling them some kind of bone. One ivory ball -- very clearly ivory in the picture -- has the added note "please note that the ball is made of clay and not ivory".

So.... some people know that what they have is ivory but they call it something else.

 

[Bob Jewett]

Ivory is a special case now. For example, Ebay does not permit ivory items to be offered, so sellers have taken to calling them some kind of bone. One ivory ball -- very clearly ivory in the picture -- has the added note "please note that the ball is made of clay and not ivory".

So.... some people know that what they have is ivory but they call it something else.

And here is a set of actual ivory balls offered as "ivory color".

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-billiard-pool-balls-ball-set-Very-Rare-/302020422128

here's the picture in case it gets erased:

 

[Bavafongoul]

Downtown LA or SF or for that matter, any city or town in CA?

FYI.....the pool tables in CA's prisons are in decent .condition,
except for some blood stains here and there that slows the roll.

 

[measureman]

Are you sure you didn't buy vintage Easter eggs?