Marquetry table - anybody recognize it?

Pierre Shakes

Pierre Shakes

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I bought this 9’ pool table from a guy who bought it over 20 years ago. He didn’t know who made it I can’t find any labels. It is proper marquetry with stained veneers. Anybody recognize this? I asked Blatt Billiards but got no answer. Italian?
 

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The artist must have had some sort of way to cut with a template to repeat those shapes so many times, right?
 
Looks French to me, their early and mid-1800s tables were elaborate and dripping in marquetry
 
Hungarian said:
The artist must have had some sort of way to cut with a template to repeat those shapes so many times, right?
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Veneers are cut to shape super-exactly with lasers. Maybe since the mid-90s. Still assembled and glued by hand I think. Aside from some water damage on the legs it is in immaculate condition.

I would let it go for $20,000cdn (about $14,000usd) but I don't often find buyers at that price locally (Victoria, BC, Canada). Since I don't have a place to display it, I will soon set it up at the front of the poolhall; all of my tables are special, this one outrageously so.

See the Virtual Tour on peacock billiards.com. It will go where the Blue Unik is now (bet you haven't seen a Unik before).
 
Pierre Shakes said:
Veneers are cut to shape super-exactly with lasers. Maybe since the mid-90s. Still assembled and glued by hand I think. Aside from some water damage on the legs it is in immaculate condition.

I would let it go for $20,000cdn (about $14,000usd) but I don't often find buyers at that price locally (Victoria, BC, Canada). Since I don't have a place to display it, I will soon set it up at the front of the poolhall; all of my tables are special, this one outrageously so.

See the Virtual Tour on peacock billiards.com. It will go where the Blue Unik is now (bet you haven't seen a Unik before).
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So this isn't 120 plus years old?
 
Pierre Shakes said:
Veneers are cut to shape super-exactly with lasers. Maybe since the mid-90s. Still assembled and glued by hand I think. Aside from some water damage on the legs it is in immaculate condition.

I would let it go for $20,000cdn (about $14,000usd) but I don't often find buyers at that price locally (Victoria, BC, Canada). Since I don't have a place to display it, I will soon set it up at the front of the poolhall; all of my tables are special, this one outrageously so.

See the Virtual Tour on peacock billiards.com. It will go where the Blue Unik is now (bet you haven't seen a Unik before).
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A very interesting room, intriguing atmosphere, excellent-looking food and menu. I have a brass ship almost
identical to your art Piece " GOIN HOME"
My next fishing trip in British Columbia I will absolutely stop by. I didn't notice a Billiard table to play
three cushion but I'll bang them around on that Snooker table. All I ask is for a house cue with a good tip.
I'll probably eat more than hit balls.
 
SmoothStroke said:
A very interesting room, intriguing atmosphere, excellent-looking food and menu. I have a brass ship almost
identical to your art Piece " GOIN HOME"
My next fishing trip in British Columbia I will absolutely stop by. I didn't notice a Billiard table to play
three cushion but I'll bang them around on that Snooker table. All I ask is for a house cue with a good tip.
I'll probably eat more than hit balls.
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I have a brass ship almost identical to your art Piece " GOIN HOME”

Wow, you really zoomed in. Please post a photo of your brass ship.
Doug deVore is an 80 year old native artist and pool player. The ship is flat-front and has no rigging - an old local design.

I had a 10’ carom table but it didn’t get enough use here in BC. The fabulous 12’ snooker Magnum table with heated slate will soon go to storage waiting for a buyer ($8,000 can = $5,600 usd) for the same reason. When I started as a poolhall in 1986 I had 4 12’ snooker and 7 pool tables. Now one technically best 12’ won’t support itself: it stands empty at night when we have a wait-list for our 24 pool tables. A shame, but I can’t be sentimental when that amount of lost revenue is involved.

I’m pleased that someone finally noticed the art/murals that make my place unique.
 
Cord said:
Nope, I had not. And the cognitive dissonance is blowing my mind here, because I somehow simultaneously think it's awesomely cool, and uglier than a hat full of assholes.
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I posted this before:

Unik is an off-shoot of Joy Billiards that makes the most original design I’ve ever seen in 43 years in the biz. I dealt with a lady by email who answered all my many questions and eventually sold me three: black with red, black with royal blue, black with gold. All US pool 4.5" corners pockets. They have gone back to only offering black & red:; it is Chinese culture colour-association thing. 1.75" slate and maybe 500 pounds of super interconnected steel under the slate. Rails are side-bolted to the slate - 5 bolts per rail! "Like bumping into a mountain" John Schmidt said. They never go out of level with the public playing on them. I don’t know if there are any other Unik tables in public in North America. A Chinese visitor said they are popular in China, so they should stay available. I don't know the Joy line otherwise.

I love this design so much more than the immovability; looks like a Transformer toy or an F-1.
 

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