Library Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Ad, Newspaper |
Published Date |
ca. 1913 |
Catalog Number |
2011.0602 |
Author |
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., Saturday Evening Post |
Subjects |
Business & finance Companies Documents Scrapbooks Billiards Billiard table industry Record keeping Records (Information) Advertisements Advertising Newspaper clippings Newspapers |
Title |
Loose advertisement: Brunswick Baby Grand Advertisement, Saturday Evening Post |
Physical Description |
Originally contained in Scrapbook: Historical Review of House of Brunswick. 9 1/2" x 14". This document was sandwiched between blank pages at the back of book, along with several other clippings. Note: This advertisement is stored in the same sleeve as 2011.0594: Loose advertisement: "The Gift for Man or Boy" Baby Grand Billiard Table Advertisement, Saturday Evening Post, February 7, 1914 |
Collection |
Brunswick |
Summary |
This is an advertisement for the Brunswick "Baby Grand" home billiard table, published in the Saturday Evening Post. The Baby Grand Home Billiard Table was made of mahogany with a slate bed and Monarch cushions, furnished as a Carom, Pocket-Billiard, or Combination Carom and Pocket-Billiard Table, and equipped with a bridge, a rack, markers, rules, and a book about "How to Play." The ad seems to be marketed mainly to men and boys. It states that billiards was a "royal game" played in the early courts of the Kings of France and England. It recommends billiards specifically to "men of affairs," who need the mental relaxation, stimulating exercise and wholesale amusement necessary to keep "in fighting trim," as well as to boys, who it claims would prefer to spend their evenings at home in wholesome fun if gifted a billiard table. However, the ad also suggests that billiards appeals to both "men and women, boys and girls." |