O. Billiard cue accessories.
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Old chalks and cue tips, and their boxes, dating
from ca
the first half of the 1900s.
- Cases.sorted
by age.
1. Chalks (made in France, Bohemia, United States, Germany and Holland).
'SAINT-MARTIN'...........
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made in France. The advertisement comes from page 22 of the German newspaper 'Internationale Billard-Zeitung' No. 3 of 1900.
'MONOPOL' and 'LA CRAIE BLEUE DE LA SOCIETE ANONYME'
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are from Bohemia and France, respectively.
'DIAMOND'..
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No maker and country are mentioned.The 'Diamond' (on the left) is probably the ancestor of the current 'Blue Diamond' (on the right), manufactured in the United States and developed in Italy by Longoni.
'ADLER' and 'BRILLIANT'.
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12 ADLER blue, white and green German chalks and 3 chalks made in Holland by the firm ZHK ca 1960.
2.
Cue tips.
'CROWN', 'Super ROYAL' and 'EUREKA'
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from
the French B.B trade mark. The advertisement comes from page 2
of the French newspaper 'Le Billard Sportif' No. 17 of 1923.
Below, a cue tip box of this well-known trademark
in the first half of the 1900s.
Notice
that:
-- the three cue tips are still manufactured
by Chandivert (France)
-- the 'Super Royal' is a double layer tip
-- the 'Eureka' is made of veal cheek.
Here is a box of French adhesive discs for fastening cue tips to shafts
and instructions for use dating from the early 1900s. Discs are of various sizes.
This
technique was already in use around 1860 and was dropped about 30 years
ago when fast-setting cements were launched.
3. Cases (sorted by age).
From top to bottom:
1.
Long light metal case with padlock (*) of the one-piece 'Boulle'
cue dating from before 1914, presented in Section M (the picture shows
only part of the case).
2. Canvas case, quite common in the early 1900's (is also found
in cloth).
3. Cardboard box, stamped 'La Victorieuse'
probably
dating from before 1930.
4. Pure leather parallelepipedal case, rare, with handle and security
lock of the Van de Kerckhove cue with decal from before 1940 shown in
Section G.
5. Hard Cylindrical case in pure leather with handle and padlock
(*) that can hold more than a cue (there are also bigger cases with a
compartment for accessories such as chalk).
6. Leather soft flat case with a handle fastened to its back (*)
that is similar to the one above. Common after 1970.
* Not in the picture.
