Wooden Boxed set of real IVORY BILLIARD SET

[Geoff Large]

how can you sleep at night knowing that the elephants have suffered a nightmarish death for the slight joy of your nursery cannons?
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Do you honestly think I have anything to be guilty of in the Killing of the elephant , Ivory balls where stopped being used by the 1930s , I was not born until 1954 .
33 years ago I started to collect ALL things related to Billiards , Now Im selling it all , if the selling of antique billiard items which contain Ivory offends you then I respect youre view , but I have advertised , and this advert is for the attention of Antique Billiard colectables . Have you complained to any thread with cues for sale that contain ivory ? Have you played Snooker on a table that has a Ivory name plate or a scoreboard with Ivory score buttons or slide peg ?
If it offends too many then they will be pulled and sold via ebay . and let some bagpipe maker buy them .
As a history of the game item they should be preserved no matter the circmstances they where made in the first place , there has always been a market for Ivory Balls , I think I am doing the correct thing in requesting they be only bought as a billiard collectable .

I take no offence at youre comments this is a forum after all , as Ivory is a touchy subject , but please do not label me as the person who pulled the trigger . or imply with can you sleep at night which prob means the same thing .

[bonoman1970]

im sorry didnt mean to offend you

[Geoff Large]

im sorry didnt mean to offend you

No problem , it made me laugh actualy , most people who like elephants would like all ivory items to be destroyed , I think thats nonsense the elephant was killed to make the balls and other ivory items because , in those early days that was the material to play billiards with , and if you had been playing then , you would have had no choice as substitute ivory had not been thought of .

The Balls have a value , the mistake of killing the elephant was many years ago and lessons have been learnt , this makes the Ivory collectable , I like to think that the balls have a value not only to look at but as part of the history of the sport . I would not recomend playing with them as Modern balls are far superior in reaction and trueness.

If doo gooders had there way then Ivory would be worthless and no market for it , the same people would moan if freinds of the earth wanted to get rid of Vintage poluting Car or mototrbike which vintage car collectors clean and polish every sunday morning to take to a show in the summer months .
I see no differance in the harm of elephants to the Harm of Exhaust gasses that we breath , Both are wrong , old cars have a market even though they polute the air ( even the goverment give them Free road Tax ), Ivory balls have a market . I just would like to sell to the correct person who will buy for his billiard collection , and not some chess piece maker or Bag Pipe maker . Who prob would buy on the black market Ivory even if its new or old .
now they are the people who should have trouble sleeping .

[totlxtc]

After ivory did they use bakelite (Or simalar) that used to break. I remember reading it ages ago just out of interest.

Update: Sorry just found out it was cellulose nitrate which exploded in production, not in actual play.

[bb5288]

Hello Geoff, do you still have any ivory billard balls for sale?

Interested in purchasing a set. I hope you still have some available! Thank you, Brandon

[Acrowot]

We used to use ivory billiard balls in the late forties in the billiard hall I learned to play in.
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[firefrets]

How can you tell if a ball is ivory or not?

[kev267]

How can you tell if a ball is ivory or not?

Being a natural product, the actual ivory grain should be visible upon close inspection.

[Acrowot]

You do not have to look hard to see the grain. The colour is not exactly uniform either, or was not in the balls we used and there were several sets of them where I played.
we sometimes used the white when we played golf, so there could be five players instead of four, or would use a spot white and red for one player and plain white and a red that was darker for one.
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