Is this a piece of Snooker / Billiards paraphernalia?

[Geoff Large]

Love the chalk cup !

I have worked on George wrights tables with that same scoreboard , they would be one of the first type used for Life pool .

I have a nice add on life pool board that is very old too , it is in the Garage at the moment so will get it out and take a photo of it .

The 15 slotted cabinet is a mystery to me , I do not think it is for life pool , as the penny slots where designed with a window that displayed the penny behind glass so people could see you where paid to be in the game , and also an extra penny could be showing to show you had paid for the star life as you had used your three life's up .
and all penny slot's had the Ivory button to show what ball you where playing with so if you where allocated Blue spot ball then you used Blue spot pull out slide and blue spot penny slot .

[Banzai]

The chalk cup was added when we put the board up as a waiting list!

Any idea of an age? It would be nice to know a bit more about the piece of history we have screwed to the wall.

[100-uper]

Wright & Co. were at the address on the scoreboard (162-164 Westminster Bridge Road) from when they were first established in 1868 until 1908. They also had their works next door at No. 58 and sometimes advertised their address as "158–164" with no particular chronological significance. It is a fairly basic model as far as these scoreboards go, with little of the intricate carving so loved by the Victorians, so it was probably intended for the function it still fulfils - as a board in a public room.

One clue is the size of the ivory buttons used on the pool slides. I find that the larger they are, the earlier the board, and in this case they are fairly big. So on that scant evidence alone, I would take an educated guess at 1880s for a date of manufacture.

Maybe Geoff has seen one of these before in a context which can be more readily dated.

[Geoff Large]

The one I had seen which is probably identical to this one was in an old Railway club in Derby , I nearly took the board when it closed as they said I could have it ,but some member nipped in and took it before I had chance , but I got an old 8ft bagatelle table before they gave up the building.
The early transfer or gold leaf George Wright badge must date it to around that date Peter.
Maybe just a few years earlier , the older pre ivory name plate badged tables that would have accompanied these old life pool boards , would have slim early Victorian legs with the top plate pockets .
I think the larger Victorian life pool boards as we normally know and see them are around the 1880 to 1900 period , this one looks to be a around the 1870 to 1880 period to me .
not much in it , but the Victorians would have got more inventive with their designs and made the larger roll scorebaord with mirrors or slate chalk board and these life pool slide outs plus the penny slots and ball storage towards the later part of the Victorian period .
some even being designed into large wardrobe type cupboards to store such things as cue's too .
Because of this George Wright board looking so old , some may mistake this board to be even older and mistakenly date it to pre founder days of George Wrights .
It certainly looks older than it is .....do not restore this board to as new , just wax it
Value wise ...around £250 to £350 if you found some genuine ivory buttons then add another £50 to that valuation.

[mythman69]

Apologies for the delay, forgot to take a snap on my previous visits.

Here is the scoreboard, no idea if they are connected with each other or not:

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Looks great to me . . .