Interestingly enough, the back cover includes telegraph codes for questions. The last pages of the book features pictures of billiard halls equipped by the company. Other features include shuffle boards, Brunswick cues, cue racks, cue cabinets, coat closets, ball racks, show case counters, cigar cases, cigar fixtures for billiard rooms, chairs and opera seating, soda fountains, and soda fountain back bars. It pictures 9 tables available and also shows the ball return system available at that time. The catalogue shows the various products available at this time. The catalogue also details billiard table equipment and cues. It explains the Monarch cushions on the table as well as how the billiard table is constructed. In the early pages, it details the history of the company as well as shows pictures of the various deparements and factories the company has. This catalogue is a reproduction of the 19 Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. It is a high quality reproduction of Brunswick's original catalog with many tables pictured (including The Aviator, Wilmington, Madison, Regal, Regina, Rochester, Arcade, and Sterling) including technical information about each. This catalogue is comprised of 68 pages, measuring 13.5" x 9.5". We have been lucky enough to get a limited quantity of this important piece of billiards history. This catalogue has been out of print for ten years. 20 green worsted pocket sets.The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. Heavy black cover leather and red trimming leather. 3 style, with nickel plated flanges countersunk in the cushion rail top, provided with invisible bolts entering from the lower side of the rail. Wood trim for pocket openings.Ĭushions: Standard Monarch certified by trademark plate countersunk in cap of rail cushion. The joints are made with brass dowels and sockets with no screw holes in playing surface. ![]() Slate Bed: Good quality Vermont, 3 pieces to the set. 8 rail bolts on sides and 4 on each end of 4 1/2 x 9' table. Cap rails 7/8" thick x 2 7/8" hardwood veneered. Invisible cushion bolts covered by what is know as blind cushion rails built up in 5-ply thicknesses placed in an alternate run of grain, with fancy figured veneer on the exterior. Compound construction built up of various kinds of hard woods of different grain to insure strength and prevent the wood being affected by climatic conditions. Rail with facing complete 2 1/4" x 4 1/8". All corners and edges made perfectly smooth and true.Ĭushion Rails: 1 3/4" thick x 3 3/8". Joints are tongued and grooved, strongly doweled and glued, or screwed firmly together. All joints made close and secure and all mitres absolutely accurate. The wood construction is all of the very best quality, cabinet made, and put together in a most thorough manner. Legs are 7 1/2" square, tongued and grooved compound construction, reinforced by corner blocks, double cross veneered inside and out and rigidly built into end framework of body. ![]() The table is built in sections and can be taken part for K. The sides are attached to the head blocks formed by the corner legs and secured thereto by 3/4" hardwood dowels reinforced by one 8" frame bolt countersunk in 2 1/4" blocks glued to the side fences. Both of the side stretchers are secured to the reinforcing blocks by 6" bolts, making an extraordinary strong bridge work. Since most billiard tables were being sold to taverns, it was only natural that they start offering back bars and front bars which they manufactured in Iowa. The company’s management after John Brunswick’s 1886 death expanded their product lines. It is also provided with single cross stretchers, 8 1/4" long by 1 1/2" thick by 14" wide stretched to side frame. The three companies would merge in 1884 to create Brunswick-Balke-Collender. ![]() The top of the side and end sections are 5" across, gradually tapering to 1 1/2" at the bottom, with the sides and ends 14" high. After being given the ordinary cabinet finish it is hand rubbed, and can be more easily kept clean than any other furniture finish.Ĭonstruction: This table has what is known in our factory as the semi-jumbo framework, which means that it is unusually heavy and has enormous carrying weight. 2 stock mahogany color with white holly inlay with black border. 6 medium or golden color, The mahogany is finished in our regular No. Wood and Finish: Furnished in quarter-sawed oak and Mahogany. Is also available as a combination table, and can be furnished to order on reasonable notice in 5x10'. Manufactured under various patents granted from 1900 to 1916. It is a good medium grade of table which will certainly be very popular. The Madison is one of our new style of billiard tables on which we have secured design patent because of originality and simplicity. Technical Information: The following is from page 36 of the 1916 Billiard Book Catalogue of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. Leg Center Length (in):Leg Center Width (in):Ĭolor Options: No. 1" framed, 1 1/8" thick reinforcing frameLength (in):
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