A collection of vintage games and gaming accessories - including two early 20th century cribbage boards; a boxed set of Towsend Croquet Limited 'Carpet Skittles'; a cased set of carpet boules; a mid-century boxed set of three bar billiards balls; eight leather and one turned yew wood dice shakers; and two wooden boxes containing gaming counters.
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Three boxed copies of The Game of Billiards entitled Robert's Billiards to Amateurs by Chaz Roberts "Vivid", Billiards for Everybody by Charles Roberts with numerous illustrations, 5th edition together with The Game of Billiards with a special treatise on Nursery Cannons by William Cook, Nursery Cannon Champion
A selection of various Ephemera & Slides relating to Snooker/Billiards, including "Improve your Play" by Jack Kahnehm, IPC/Bob Thomas photographic Playing Cards, commem box for Joe Davis 500th break celebratory Dinner at the Dorchester Hotel; together with a box of earlcy C20th "Crystallate" Billiard Balls.
Photographic and other Billiard History: various Biiliard-interest Photographs including group 1929 World Professional Billiards Championship, Tom Newman/George Emmett exhibition match, flyer for Joyce Gardner at the Savoy, Gardner/Rea exhibition match poster, British Women's Billiards Tournament 1929 Burwat Trophy Presentation, 1904 Stevenson/Dawson Test Match, etc.
A folder of mainly newspaper cuttings and photographs relating to The Boy Billiards Marvel Donald Cruickshank, circa 1930's to 1960's to include Post Office telegrams, "Don Cruickshank Boroughs of London Best Wishes today", Cruickshank Brave Donald Congratulations, Splendid Performance, Keep Smiling, Bowman
Three small billiards Flicker books numbered 17, 18 and 19,Willie Smith Cue Grip & Bridge, Sidney Smith Masse Stroke & Close Cannon, Joyce Gardner & Willie Smith Cannon & Screw Loser and Postman's Knock, all published by Burrows & Watts Ltd of London together with Billiards Shots with Joyce Gardner entitled Current Stance & Screw Loser & Cannon and Willie Smith Postman's Knock (4)
H TURNER: THE GRAND AND PRACTICAL GAME BILLIARDS, Northampton, Printed for the author by J T Burgess, 1849. Full dark green leather blocked in gilt and gilt titpe. Some losses, rubbing and bumpeing to extremities, loosening of gutters. Hand drawn pencil line to plates and ink colouring to snooker balls.
A folder containing black and white photographs of the Ladies Billiards Championship and Snooker Championship including a photograph of Dorothy Thompson, Winner of the National Womens Snooker Champion holding the Reynolds Rose Bowl which she won at the Burrows & Watts Hall at the Southern Counties Challenge Cup and a black and white picture of Miss Thelma Carpenter winning the Billiard Championship at Thurstons, Leicester Square where she beat Miss Ruth Harrison, the holder of the title etc.
An interesting collection of ephemera relating mostly to the women's billiards, including a reference letter dated 1941 for Joyce Gardner from the "Billiards for the Services Fund" to the Minister of Labour, explaining how she was essential to their fundraising efforts and imploring she not be "lost" to this cause (presumably to other war-related work); also 1938 souvenir programme for Elsie & Doris Waters in Thurston Hall, London; promotional bill for 1927 Tom Reece exhibition at New Holborn; account made out to Joyce Gardner for proceeds of exhibition match against Thelma Carpenter at the Leicester Square Hall 1949; Joyce Gardner's copy of the programme for the 1939 Women's Professional Biliiards Championship; and various other ephemera.

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