Various Antique score boards

[Geoff Large]

I have just zoomed into the pocket opening of the table and can confirm it has steel block cushions you can see the wrap around of the small end wood blocks at the end of each steel cushion where the end of the cushion finishes , this would in my opinion make it 100% late 1890s/1900 circa
I think someone has to see it in the flesh to fully confirm this .

I have tried to zoom into the markings on the dials and cannot make out any numbers from the photo's , is there a closer still photo shot of the dials ?
when I did zoom in it is aparent that the pointer is mid position of the larger numbers , are you sure it is a 20 up pointer and not a 100 up pointer and each large number is 5 digits apart ?
it is prob a one off table built to someones design incorperating the electronic scoreboard , I do not know what bugs me about the 1850s date and it being so wrong about this table , but from what we know about patents and design and when electricity was more common used in victorian times ( late 1890s ) this table is more likley a late 1890s table .
Maybe the house had another table and the lady has somehow mixed the date of a table purchased with this later table and no records show the first table was ever replaced ?
the confirmation of when the building was first being built is another concern of the date being 13 years out .

I will point out that the leg design of this table is very simular to the magnus slate framed table at penryn castle , but you can see that the penryn castle table is an older table having slender legs and thin friezed frame . much like an early 1830/50s gillows table would have . there are so many design issues with this more modern table that you just cannot date it to an 1850/60s design .

Geoff

[cally]

very interesting....

[100-uper]

Well, William Buttery patented the steel block cushion for Burroughes & Watts in 1889. So even if it was a prototype it could not be much earlier than this. The scoreboard is definitely 20-up. I my screenshot is slightly easier to zoom than the uploaded version, and although it is still fuzzy there twenty number with no intermediate graduations. I did notice that perched to the top right of the scoreboard is a cut-down version of a hand-marker similar to the one below



Clearly the users found this feature quite limiting and were looking for ways to extend the range. Rather defeats the object of an electronic marking board though. One good reason why it didn't catch on I suppose.

[bellandbottle]

Geoff, thanks for an interesting thread. I haven’t had much time for posting, but when I lurk, it’s threads like this that tweak my interest. Also I like your & 100-uper, boards. They would spruce up any room. I have a few different smaller score boards, with my favourite (not smaller) being the one below. The previous owner had done some work on the cabinet, but didn’t get too far. I started to work on it but unfortunately it has become one of the many projects I have on the go.

Mike

I have a life pool scoreboard in at the moment, similar to yours, but without the base cabinet, and would like to talk to you about it. I have just discovered that I must post 10 times before I can send a PM. I joined the forum this morning.

[Mike P]

Hi Bellandbottle, if you want to drop me an email, my address is:
mpp(at)onlink(dot)net

Mike