old mystery Victor 10 ft table
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Very cool pool table! Do you know much about it? I would be interested to learn what you know about that table if you would like to share and as always more pics would be great.
Took the words right out of my mouth. More info about the table and please, more pictures would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for posting.
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Old/Antique 10 ft Victor billiard table
I have some previous posts (Just search chucknduck) trying to find information about table. But so far no one has been able to positively I.D. model and year table was made. I have spoken with current owner of Lanza billiards (was Victor back in the day) and he thought after seeing first round of photo's that this was a Rex or a Palmer built in the 30's or 40's ( see http://lanzabilliards.com/ ), there is catalog picture of Rex which has the angled back leg with smooth rounded front (mine are fluted front and straight). In the photo of the "20th Century" I see exact same aprons metal corners,ball box and rack in apron over box as mine but the whole cabinet (base) is different . I sent him some more photo's (after consulting with him about the now extinct K 27 cushions) so he could do a little more research into it (waiting to hear back from him).
The little I do know is that the table was in a pool hall in the Baltimore (Dundalk? Essex ) and at 10 feet probably the tournament table there (?semi -educated guess). Some of this info came from older gentlemen who sold it to me for 100 dollars (was going to give it away but saw my excitement and decideded to make "some" money). I have kept it here semi restored until I could "convince" wife that lally column needed to go to create large enough space for play area (took 19 years of convincing plus life,money,other priorites that got in the way) , and now that column is gone the project is underway.
I always thought it would be nice to know a little more about the table. I've been hoping that maybe someone on here will see this and recognize it or have one like it or know someone who does or have played on it or one like it.
I have some previous posts (Just search chucknduck) trying to find information about table. But so far no one has been able to positively I.D. model and year table was made. I have spoken with current owner of Lanza billiards (was Victor back in the day) and he thought after seeing first round of photo's that this was a Rex or a Palmer built in the 30's or 40's ( see http://lanzabilliards.com/ ), there is catalog picture of Rex which has the angled back leg with smooth rounded front (mine are fluted front and straight). In the photo of the "20th Century" I see exact same aprons metal corners,ball box and rack in apron over box as mine but the whole cabinet (base) is different . I sent him some more photo's (after consulting with him about the now extinct K 27 cushions) so he could do a little more research into it (waiting to hear back from him).
The little I do know is that the table was in a pool hall in the Baltimore (Dundalk? Essex ) and at 10 feet probably the tournament table there (?semi -educated guess). Some of this info came from older gentlemen who sold it to me for 100 dollars (was going to give it away but saw my excitement and decideded to make "some" money). I have kept it here semi restored until I could "convince" wife that lally column needed to go to create large enough space for play area (took 19 years of convincing plus life,money,other priorites that got in the way) , and now that column is gone the project is underway.
I always thought it would be nice to know a little more about the table. I've been hoping that maybe someone on here will see this and recognize it or have one like it or know someone who does or have played on it or one like it.
