Play a Real Ghost on this Table - Fatboy, Rescue It!

This table looks like a Brunswick Monarch. They are VERY collectable and expensive after restoration.

Google "Brunswick Monarch" and see for yourself. They don't know what they have there. Otherwise, they wouldn't let it just sit there in a building with broken windows.

I believe these tables had serial numbers on them. Anyone wanna take a trip to see what the serial number on this classic is?
 
OMG! I just found the original prices for these tables. That is definitely a Monarch. The following is pasted from the Brunswick website:

Monarch
From the J. M. Brunswick and Balke Company catalog:
The Monarch. This magnificent table embodies great solidity and massiveness of construction, with elegance and grace of design. It is very ornamental, the sides being of wood tastefully inlaid with various colored mosaics, and the legs being of iron finished in black and gold. A leveling screw in the center of the feet assists in establishing a perfect level over the entire surface of the table. It is unique in style and a departure from the established idea of a billiard table, and has met with much favor among those of acknowledged taste.

Inlaid with California laurel, burl ash, French walnut, birds-eye maple, rosewood, ebony, mahogany and tulipwood.

From the J. M. Brunswick and Balke Company illustrated price list, 1878:

Construction patented September 7, 1875. Leveling Apparatus patented November 30, 1875.

Pool tables with ivory balls instead of Hyatt balls will be $25 additional to these prices:

8' carom: $275. 8' pool: $300. 8' combination: $350.
9' carom: $300. 9' pool, $325. 9' combination: $375.
10 carom: $325. 10' pool, $350. 10' combination: $400.
 
yes

Yes, even if it is the only one in the world it is fine where it is at. It will last virtually unchanged for many decades in the high desert. The last I knew some of the buildings in Bodie aren't completely weather colored yet, they look like raw wood in places. That high dry air preserves things very well. I know of other cabins that are over a hundred years old in the high desert that aren't completely weathered yet.

If they start dismantling Bodie piece by piece it will never be the same. I hope not a thing is touched. There is a prehistoric indian village in the high desert too. It was kept hidden by a single family of ranchers for generations. Now it belongs to the state. We can only hope it is left intact instead of parceled off to museums. Much that is in that village is unique. That isn't any reason to start destroying that village either.

I have found artifacts in the high desert and other places. I look and leave them exactly as I found them. In my opinion this is the right thing to do most of the time.

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cmbwsu said:
I agree with you in part. Would you still say this if, after further research, it turns out this is the only table of this kind left? Would you still want it to be caught up in the "program of 'arrested decay'?" Part of their mission statement reads: ..... "preserve and enhance California's irreplaceable historic heritage as a matter of public interest so that its vital legacy of cultural, educational, recreational, aesthetic, economic, social, and environmental benefits will be maintained and enriched for present and future generations."
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TX Poolnut said:
Picks of the Bodie, California pool room:
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I'm sure it was just an added relic, but why is there a rack hanging on the cue stand, when it's a billiard table ? Just thought it was funny :wink:

Dick
 
SJDinPHX said:
I'm sure it was just an added relic, but why is there a rack hanging on the cue stand, when it's a billiard table ? Just thought it was funny :wink:

Dick
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Nice one. Good eye! :)
 
I have visited Bodie before. You can't take anything from there, not even a tea cup. There are rangers living on site, and you would risk some serious jail time. Don't even think about it!
 
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SJDinPHX said:
I'm sure it was just an added relic, but why is there a rack hanging on the cue stand, when it's a billiard table ? Just thought it was funny :wink:

Dick
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You may have discovered why these ancient people became extinct.

But seriously it is a shame to see that table left there and not restored.It would also be a shame to remove it from the place.
 
Didn't Kim Bassinger buy a town in Georgia or something like that......Fatboy could buy Bodie, California and then get his hands on this table.
 
smoooothstroke said:
You may have discovered why these ancient people became extinct.

But seriously it is a shame to see that table left there and not restored.It would also be a shame to remove it from the place.
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A bit of a paradox.

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