parisian pool board?

blackflagsailor

blackflagsailor

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Does anyone make a Parisian pool board for an 8ft table?

I was reading through a 1910 online copy of Brunswick's guide to Billiards and there are a ton of games that can be played using a Parisian board.
 
Like Keno, or Amos 'n' Andy....

The Parisian board was like a Keno board that only took up part of the end of the table and had a brass ramp, and because it only took up part of the table end, it had a little short fence to keep the balls on the board. Other than that it was basically a Keno board. Nobody makes them. There were many Keno board games, Amos 'n' Andy, American Ace, Golf, Poker, etc., and these boards were frequently two-sided and could be customized to have two of six available games. Another board was one-sided but had three games: Baseball, poker, keno (each hole had 3 seperate decals denoting a score option for each game.) You can even call Saunier-Wilhem and they will mail you a rules pamphlet for their boards..... they still have some of the old rules pamphlets - they sent me one. The original Keno board was called Ke-No.
 
Interesting. I am working on a rule book for billiard games. Something that'll offer more then the 30+ games that BCA offers. I have found hundreds of games to play.

I don't know if I should bother with Parisian board games or not. I wonder if the rules can be modified to play on the keno boards that are currently available?
 
Rules Book

There is already a book in print that covers between 370-380 different billiard games. The book includes games from the 1600's to the present. to check it out go to www.300ways.com
 
Does anyone have any photos of a Parisian pool board? I'd like to see what one looked like. Did a search on wiki and google but didn't have any luck.
 
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