Date and Model ID for Antique Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. Pool Table

6/2/2024 2:59:01 PM

Date and Model ID for Antique Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. Pool Table

I am looking for the date of manufacture and a model identification for our antique Brunswick pool table.

We are getting ready to sell this pool table as we have downsized. I would like to know the approximate date range of manufacture and a model if possible. I think it would have been made in Brunswick's Toronto factory due to the "of Canada Ltd" stamp on the brass plate. I also think the factory there ran from between 1912 and 1960.

We had it restored it with new cloth and had the woodwork cleaned up. It is a 5' x 9' pool table and has 4 pieces of 1" thick slate.

Any information would be helpful.

Thanks kindly,
Brooke

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brooke

Date and Model ID for Antique Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. Pool Table

Replies & Comments

billiardsforum on 9/6/2024 7:33:17 AM
This model doesn't appear in any of the Brunswick Billiards catalogs between the years 1890 and 1950.

The closest Brunswick model is the Brunswick "Oxford" pool table—the only model I am aware of which Brunswick made in this style—which was made from 1898 to 1911. All of the literature says it was only available as a "12-foot" option (which has a 5.5 foot X 11.5 foot playing surface). But your model clearly isn't that.

This model is shown below as seen in Brunswick pool table catalogs from 1898, 1904, and 1908 respectively.

I'll continue to keep an eye out, and will let you know if anything turns up. Please do the same if you find out through some other source!