Please identify this table
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No such thing as a AMF Gold Crown. No GC's were made in Mexico either. Parts for GC3's were sourced from there but no GC's were assembled there. I think this is a Viscount. https://www.google.com/search?clien...EkwdlgyMGRWYkpNGAEwARgHIOeCiKYLSggQARgBIAEoAQ
Just going by what I was told after I saw a very clearly different Gold Crown for sale in Mexico about 7 years ago. It was a good looking table. I sent the photo to Shane Johnson at the time so if you know him as a table mechanic he can back up what I saw. But thanks for the info.
NO GC's were made in Mexico. starting with the 3 they farmed out castings and other parts to Mexico but no GC's were ever built in Mexico. Whatever you may have seen doesn't sound like a real GC table, probably a ko of some kind. They did make a Medalist that looks a lot like a GC but they aren't the same. https://www.pooltablesflorida.com/Pro_by_Brunswick_p/medalist-brunswick.htm They get confused as a GC all the time.
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https://brunswick.pastperfectonline.com/library/D9F8878D-A544-406E-9795-731790275571 more pics. looks like GC but its not. Good table but not quite as stout.
I remember those art deco, skirted GC I's.... I think they came in three different colors, they had em at the IU bowling alley when I played Varner in the Collegiate Midwest finals, I think those at the bowling alley, with no overhead lights, next to the lanes and ball racks were orange.
Don't remember the flared out bottom edge, tho it's been since 69 when I last played on one. I always thought they tucked inward, no bottom edge flare out.
Don't remember the flared out bottom edge, tho it's been since 69 when I last played on one. I always thought they tucked inward, no bottom edge flare out.
the table in the op's post is NOT a GC. Without seeing the legs i'm saying Viscount. Look at the pics i posted.
are you referring to the table in op's post? like i said without seeing the legs it looks just like a Viscount. That flared bottom edge and the corners are a dead giveaway. The Brunswick Medalist only used 4-rails, looks a LOT like a GC.
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That's the table in the op's first post. I linked to pic also, this one shows the color options. If you look at the apron flare and the way the corner casting sits above the apron its pretty clear. These were basic home tables meant to 'kinda' look like a commercial table.
Oops. got so focused on the aprons, made me think of GCI's
The Viscount skirt seems to have a six-inch separate corner piece in the skirt. The OP picture seems to have just a seam centered on the pocket.
It's possible different years had slightly different skirts. Or, it's a Viscount knock off. Whatever it is, it's not a Gold Crown or an AMF.
Yes, they could have changed. The Viscount seems to have straight sections for the main skirt parts, and then a curved corner part.
Looks like they made it for six yrs. Could have changed the aprons for simplicity/cost. Pics of one apart. Looks to made pretty decent: https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/is-this-a-brunswick-viscount.406169/
The one in the OP looks much simpler than the online pictures of Viscounts. The entire side skirt appears to be a single piece without a corner piece, and there is no separate bottom part. The radius at the top of the skirt is much larger than the (usual) Viscount. I'm thinking knock-off.
That's why I prefaced with
"If GC & AMF are the only possible choices"