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A mixed lot, including a Richard Nixon silver medallion in box, a silver Bath City Secondary School medal, a silver handled pocket fruit knife, a silver tiepin with Spitfire, two silver and enamel Bar Billiards fobs, a silver and enamel badge, an Ostende, and a knock bayonet brooch, together with medallions and other small collectables
An early 20th century bar billiards table, with cues, balls and scoreboard, operated on a sixpence, with mechanical movement by Brevete of France. Overall 210cm x 107cm x 88cmGood overall condition. Some pin holes to rexine topping, though unclear cause. Scoreboard not original. General surface scratching, wear and indentations to framing. This is slate based, mounted onto a hardboard liner. In working order, but balls can stick so may require a service. Operated with a shilling (a few present). Unlocked with no key.
An early 20th century George Wright & Co. mahogany wall hanging billiards scoreboard, with moulded cornice above a central blackboard flanked on either side by six sliding ball counters, with two rotating score counters below having brass pointers, 94cm wide, together with a mahogany wall hanging ball cabinet, having twin glazed doors opening to fitted ball racks, 86cm wide, and three George Wright rules of the games Billiards, Pool and Pyramid within stained oak frames with gilt slips, two at 54x45cm and one at 75x53cm. (5)ball holder and framed rules (3)
UNIVERSITY -- LEIDEN -- "STUDENTEN SOCIETEIT "MINERVA" 1874". (Leiden, P. Somerwil, c. 1874). Fine plain lithogr. by and after (photographs by) J.C. Greive depicting the interior of the 'Old' Club Minerva with students reading, playing cards and billiards, etc. 495 x 675 mm. (Recently framed and glazed). -- Added: "SOCIETEIT MINERVA van de H.H. Studenten te Leyden Gezien op het Rapenburg". [Leiden, F. Desterbecq, n.d. (c. 1840)]. Partially cold. lithogr. after M. Mourot in decorative border representing i.a. the portrait of William I of Orange. 345 x 427 mm. Older framing, glazed and under passepartout. (Address invisible/gone (?), a bit browned, tear visible in lower margin, unexamined out of frame). -- (2). NOTE: Ad 1: Printed by Tresling & Co. at Amsterdam. Muller, 7493a. Rare.
Luxurious liquor bar in the style of Napoleon III (Cave a liqueur) made in the 19th century by TH. ANNEE. Fully embellished with a Boulle marquetry pattern. The set includes four decanters and 12 glasses richly decorated with a gold pattern. Necessity of men`s cabinets, billiards and smoking rooms. TH mark. ANNEE22 rue Chapon à Paris.Condition: Exc., Usual restorationsStyle: BoulleCountry: FrancePeriod: 19th centuryWarranty: Seller WarrantyMaterial: Wood, Marquetry, GlassProduct sizes: Height - 26cmwidth - 32.5cm
A Thurston and Co. Ltd combined Billiards, Snooker and Life Pool scoreboard, the lockable compartment containing snooker balls and triangles, 122x69x15, together with an oak revolving cue stand by Burroughs and Watts, 56x120cm, containing twelve cues, rests, spiders and extendable versions of the same, and a Rules of Snooker framed print.
Card-Playing.- [?Hawkins (William)], "Gyles Smith". Serious Reflections on the Dangerous Tendency Of the Common Practice of Card-Playing; Especially of the Game of All-Fours, as it hath been Publickly play'd at Oxford..., 24pp., first edition with "price fourpence" at foot of title, title browned, modern boards, W.Owen, [1755] § [Bolton (Robert)] A Letter to a Lady, on Card-Playing on the Lord's Day, first edition, half-title, modern wrappers, for J.Leake at Bath [&] M. Cooper & R. Dodsley, 1748 § Beaufort (James) Hoyle's Games Improved, being practical treatises on...Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Back-gammon, Chess, Billiard and Tennis, first edition, contemporary sheep, a little worn, S.Bladon, 1775, 8vo & 12mo (3)⁂ The first was written as a response to the increasing popularity of card games, brought about by the numerous publications of Edmond Hoyle. Hawkins was a clergyman, poet, dramatist and the Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Unsurprisingly there are many copies in various Oxford colleges but it is rare in commerce. The last is a reworking and simplification of Hoyle's guides to games with billiards and tennis (i.e. real tennis) added and which Hoyle had "never touched upon".
ACCOUNT BOOK. [The account book of Lieutenant Streatfield. N.p.: 1843-1854.] 8vo (176 x 112mm.) 143pp. of hand-written accounts, mainly relating to 'wages', 'waste-paper', 'pigeons,' 'police', 'cabs' and 'lawn billiards' and signed off by a 'John Enock', with a 24pp. 'Wine Account' to the rear. (Toning, minor soiling to margins.) Near contemporary vellum with bronze clasp and boss (minor staining).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Postcards, Sport, a collection of approx. 50 cards, with gymnastics, winter sport, croquet, climbing, billiards team (RP), athletics, fishing, hockey, bowls (RP), netball, tug of war (RPs), quiots (RP), skiing, curling, tobogganing, bobsledding, luge, bathing belles, ice skating (1 signed), Boscombe skating rink (RP) etc. Nice mix (mainly gd)
Postcards, Comic, a comic selection of approx. 106 cards, artists include Tom Browne (with Weekly Telegraph), Phil May, Geo. Davey, Ernest Noble, Moreland (political), Hassall, Lionel Edwards, G.E Shepheard, Felix, Attwell, Cynicus, Ludovici, Stocker-Shaw, Lewin etc. Themes include servants, eggs, glamorous ladies/romance, phrenology, crazes, wireless terms, funny graph, music, shops, children's games, comic billiards, seaside, fishing etc (mainly gd)
DOYLE ARTHUR CONAN: (1859-1930) Scottish author, creator of Sherlock Holmes. A small 8vo ruled page removed from a notebook bearing Doyle's holograph pencil scores from a game of billiards, n.p., n.d. ('October'). The list of various scores includes several for Doyle himself, signing with his initials ('ACD') in two places in the left column alongside scores of 51 and 48. The name of his opponent, Stewart,and their various scores also appear on the page. VG
A World War I medal trio, named to Corporal, later Lieutenant A F Smith, 1/6 Gordon Highlanders, 10722, comprising a 1914 star in the rank of Corporal, Great War and Victory medals in the rank of Lieutenant, together with a presentation plaque on the occasion of Mr Smith's marriage to Miss D E Camken, with associated paperwork, and a silver billiards medal, named to the same, obverse for St Dunstan's Billiard Fund, verso A F Smith 1925, cased.
(Sport), 11 volumes 'The Badminton Library', comprising 'Cricket', 'Mountaineering', 'Billiards', 'Shooting: Field & Covert; Moor & Marsh', 2 volumes (plus another duplicate set of the same 2 vols), 'Fencing, Boxing, Wrestling', 'Skating, Figure Skating, Curling etc', 'Riding Polo', all original pictorial cloth gilt, plus 'Coursing & Falconry', rebound half calf gilt; plus 'The Lonsdale Library', 11 volumes, comprising 'Volume II Trout Fishing', 'Volume XXXIII Motor Racing', 'Volume XV Cruising', (2 copies same title), 'Volume XIX Motor Cruising', 'Volume XXIX Wildfowling', these all in original cloth gilt, all in dust wrappers, plus 'Volume II Trout Fishing', 'Volume XX Salmon Fishing', 'Volume III Shooting by Moor, Field & Shore', 'Volume VII Foxhunting', 'Volume XV Cruising', in original cloth gilt; plus 1 other (23)
An Edwardian walnut billiards or 'Life Pool' scoreboard, by J. Ashcroft & Co, with rolling dials and sliding covers enclosing bone-inlaid star slides, surrounding a slate board, with glass-covered ball compartments,108cm wide15cm deep70cm highCondition ReportOne piece of panelling missing to the right hand side. Some surface marks and wear. Some rubbing to gilt detail. Some minor splits to veneer. Joints sound. Glass free from cracks. Slides and rolling dials move smoothly. Overall appears in fair order and is ready for use.
A mahogany framed full size snooker / billiards table by Burroughes & Watts Ltd of London, the green baize with slate bed, raised on heavy turned and reeded supports, together with various cues, light, No. 1 scoreboard, balls, triangle, brushes, etc, approx 385 cm long x 205 cm wide x 85 cm high
A late Victorian Renaissance revival ebonised oak and parcel gilt snooker/billiards table by Waring and Gillow, together with two late Victorian scoreboards by J. Bennett & Co. along with an ebonised and parcel gilt cue standthe snooker table and scoreboards circa 1900The projecting top edge above an ovolo form stiff-leaf and bead moulding, over a slightly ovolo frieze carved with an egg-and-dart lower border, each short end of the frieze with a swivel hinged chalk cup, on a total of eight large piers, the four end cluster piers each comprised of two engaged fluted Composite columns headed by an acanthus clasped volute scrolled corbel, the four central piers each comprised of one conforming column headed by a conforming corbel, each column with foliate wrapped baluster shafts terminating in gadrooned scrolled pedestals and plinth bases, the piers linked by eight ogee arches, the spandrels to each arch carved with volute scrolls, scrolled acanthus leaves and berried foliage centred by one of eight individualised masks variously depicting the gods and goddesses: Jupiter, Juno, Mercury, Silenus (or Bacchus), Mars, Minerva, Faunus and Ceres, with a lozenge block and a cluster of scrolled corbels below, the lettering to one short end reads: 'WARING & GILLOW, MANCHESTER', the table stamped: 'WARING & GILLOW LD., MANCHESTER' and also 'U28', the underside of the slate bearing: 'J.B.517', the two scoreboards comprising one for snooker and one for billiards, each of rectangular outline with dot and chevron-incised chamfered square section pilaster surrounds, interspersed by rosette angles and punctuated with trefoils, surmounted by fleur-du-lys finials, the reverse of each scoreboard with the ink stamp: 'From J. Bennett & Co., Billiard Table Makers, 9 Edward Street, Vincent Square, London, S.W.', the stand with fourteen recesses and brackets for cues, flanked by two spiral twist turned columns surmounted by acorn finials, above one long and one short frieze drawer, together with a modern ebonised and parcel gilt domed overhead light, a full set of balls, a triangle and a brush box, each scoreboard: 79cm wide x 15cm deep x 101cm high; the cue stand: 125cm wide x 35cm deep x 173cm high; the table: 383cm wide x 203cm deep x 88.5cm high, (150 1/2in wide x 79 1/2in deep x 34 1/2in high) ;the modern overhead light approximately: 290cm wide x 69cm deep x 54cm high. (5)Footnotes:ProvenanceBy repute of the current owner and vendor, the offered lot was purchased in 1989 from George Apter by the vendor's father. The present snooker table and accessories have remained within the family since that time, although unfortunately no paperwork remains to support this fact.It is important to note that the present lot will only be available to view at the vendor's property and that an appointment for this will need to be arranged directly between any interested party and the vendor. Please contact Thomas Moore, Head of Furniture, for more details of how to go about this in the meantime. Please be aware that the eventual successful buyer, once their payment for the item has completed, will then be required themselves to arrange collection and onward transportation of this lot from its current location at the vendor's property.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A late Victorian golden oak snooker and billiards scoreboard, c.1890-1900, with stained ivory ball markers and painted and gilt decoration, 104cm wide24cm deep89cm highSimilar examples that have come to market recently bear labels for London makers such as Cox & Yeman and John Roberts & Co.IMPORTANT NOTEThis lot contains elephant ivory material. Please be advised that several countries, including those in the EU and the USA, now prohibit the importation of ivory items unless under specific conditions. Accordingly, prospective buyers should familiarise themselves with the relevant customs regulations of their country and ensure they are able to import this item prior to bidding.This item has been registered as exempt from the UK Ivory Act 2018, on account of it being made before 3 March 1947 with less than 10% ivory by volume. Ivory declaration submission reference: G68QYXK3Condition ReportGeneral knocks and surface wear. Some small losses and areas of cosmetic repair. One ivory roundel lost. Backboard replaced. Rotating and sliding mechanisms all functional. Slate appears free from large cracks and damage. One door knob replaced. Some dust and dirt. Overall appears with some general surface wear commensurate with age and use, however is in relatively good structural and cosmetic condition and is perfectly usable in its current state.
Autograph Book with over 20 Sporting Autographs. Signatures include Ian Davies, World Billiards Champion, Jack Bodell, Boxing Referee Harry Gibb, Larry Gains, Dave King, Boxing Promoter Mike Barret, jack Short, Jack Powell, Alf Danahar, Kevin Finnigan, Nosher Powell, Frank Ball, Alan Rudkin, Paddy Maguire, Bobby Ramsay, Billy Knight, Johnny Pritchett Dai Dower, Alan Minter, Johnny Cusack and others. Some Pages Coming Away from Autograph Book. Showing Signs of Age. Good Signatures. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) (American, 1904-1991). Large lithograph titled "Cat from the Wrong Side of the Tracks," depicting a tie-wearing, cigarette-smoking anthropomorphic cat in Seuss' iconic style chalking a pool stick and preparing to play a convoluted game of billiards. Signed in plate along the lower left; numbered 69/850 along the lower right. With a certificate of authenticity.Sight; height: 44 in x width: 24 in. Framed; height: 54 in x width: 34 in.

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