Immaculate Oak full size Riley Viceroy for Private sale

[Geoff Large]

Another private sale direct from the owner Igor .

Feast your eyes on this beauty http://gclbilliards.com/immaculate-l...eroy-for-sale/

Very hard to find these nowadays , great for barn conversions with good welsh slate and in this condition you will not find a better modern table to match it or come close to the wood and slate used .
good welsh slate and solid English Oak , Deep archways to the square legs which fit's in well with modern contemporary furniture and fittings .
Price you will have to thrash out with the owner but I am sure it will be a Bargain for such a well built table of build quality you will not see today with modern woodworking ethics , this table would be almost hand made. Home owner is moving house , so a rapid sale is required. Contact Geoff for owners contact number and email . , also contact Geoff at GCL Billiards if you buy it and want it relocating
Forget about steel block cushions with this solid oak table you will have no problems with rigidity of cushions.

Geoff

[philip in china]

It looks wonderful. When would it have been made, Geoff?

[Geoff Large]

It looks wonderful. When would it have been made, Geoff?

Could have been anytime between the 1930s and 1960s Phil , I am not sure when the Viceroy was first sold , maybe 100 upper will know . I have a Riley brochure dated 1937-8 with photo's of it in .

not many of them about as most went for the model with much less of an Arch , which was called the Riley Imperial
I did one of these not long ago http://gclbilliards.com/riley-oak-fu...to-shrewsbury/
The only difference was those deep archways and the slide in cushion panel was thicker on the viceroy , but the quality of oak and slates and cushions where the same

[100-uper]

Not sure of the exact dates for the Viceroy. I know it was being produced by Riley's as a top of the range table in 1911.

The last reference I have to them supplying a "Viceroy" is for the final of the World Professional Snooker Championship in 1950, although I would expect that they persisted with it until the late 1960s when they became Riley Burwat and changed to the "Sheerline" design. This looks a bit too clean to be a very early one, but I could be wrong.

[Geoff Large]

Looks like someone is interested in the Oak Viceroy , they are going to view it , I didn't think this one would be around for sale long .

and yes it looks more like a 1950s one with the woodwork , although it was fully renovated a few years ago by the Billiard Barn .

thanks for the info Peter , those sheerlines look awful and the Starline which replaced it where terrible tables to work on , Willie Thornes in Leicester now closed as a Rileys last year was full of Starline's , but they had normal cushions put on them for ease of re-covering .
http://www.snookerheritage.co.uk/his...cles/ej-riley/

[billabong]

Looks like someone is interested in the Oak Viceroy , they are going to view it , I didn't think this one would be around for sale long .

and yes it looks more like a 1950s one with the woodwork , although it was fully renovated a few years ago by the Billiard Barn .

thanks for the info Peter , those sheerlines look awful and the Starline which replaced it where terrible tables to work on , Willie Thornes in Leicester now closed as a Rileys last year was full of Starline's , but they had normal cushions put on them for ease of re-covering .
http://www.snookerheritage.co.uk/his...cles/ej-riley/

Those Sheerlines & starlines, remind me of Cumbernauld.

When they were built, people probably thought they looked futuristic, but they aged very quickly. .