BILLIARD FIRMS.

Below are listed the firms appearing in this site, as well as their productions and years of foundation.

1816 - Chéreau (France): billiards.
1820 - Hiolle (France): cues.
1828 - Barbier (France): balls, cues, accessories.
1830 - Hénin Aîné (France): balls, more accessories (later).
1830 - Erremus (Belgium): billiards, accessories.
1839 - Finck (Germany) (was still existing in 1919): cues, accessories.
1857 - Toulet (France): billiards.
<1860 Dorfelder (Germany) (was still existing in 1904): billiards, cues, balls.
1862 - Bour (Germany): billiards, cues, balls.
1871 - Wolsing (Germany): billiards.
1880 - Sampaio (Portugal): cues.
1884 - Schröder & Kartzke (Germany): cues, accessories.
1893 - Van de Kerckhove (Belgium): billiards.
1893 - Wilden (The Netherlands, Belgium): billiards, cues.
1894 - Brunswick (France): billiards, cues.
1897 - Proust (France): billiards, cues.
1898 - Thissen (Belgium) shop.
1898 - Wilhelmina (The Netherlands): billiards, cues.
<1900 St. Martin-Palisson (France): billiards, cues, accessories.
<1905 Boetzel (Germany): cues.
1906 - Van Laere (Belgium): billiards, cues.
<1907 Adorjan (Belgium, France): cues.
<1910 Caro (France): billiards, cues (probably).
<1926 Laprévote (France): cues.
<1926 Brauers (Belgium): cues.
1932 - Gabriels (Belgium): billiards.
1945 - Longoni (Italy): cues.
1953 - Horemans (Belgium): billiards.
<1960 Klein (France): cues.
1963 - Corin (Belgium) shop.
<1963 Basile (Belgium): cues.
<1963 Glineur (Belgium) shop.
<1963 Tremerie (Belgium): cues.
1968 - Adam (U.S.A.): cues.
1971 - Verhoeven (Belgium): billiards, cues.
1983 - eSBee (Stany Buyle, Belgium): cues.
19?? - Grivaud (France): ?.
19?? - Duqué (Belgium): ?.
19?? - Carrier & Laumé (France): ?.
<1994 Doublel (Italy): cues.

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All these firms ceased their activities except Thissen, Caro, Wilhelmina, Toulet and the most recent ones, Longoni, Corin, Adam, Verhoeven and eSBee (research in progress for Grivaud, Duqué, Carrier-Laumé, Wolsing, St. Martin-Palisson, Doublel, Seguin and Castor). Carrier & Laumé was bought out by Billards Bréton (France, 1852) around 1980-90.

Part of an advertisement published in LE BILLARD, No. 3, 1879, Belgium.
According to this newspaper, ERREMUS factory is the largest in Belgium at the time.