Rare 19th C. Clay Engraved Baseball Pocket Billiards #20 Ball vintage street sign These spades include the identifying

These spades include the identifying Ace

I really really love the how the face on this carving is not at all what one might expect based on the rest of her

together with the very pale eyes and outlaid hands

With an embossed stamp bearing the name of its former owner--Steven Guarnaccia

" "if you would win a pen of gold

Rare 19th C. Clay Engraved Baseball Pocket Billiards #20 Ball vintage street sign These spades include the identifyingOdd, but this is the second of these I've found in the past month or so, perhaps both having come out of the same estate somewhere. It's a rare onethe 20th ball in a c. 1880s set of baseball pocket billiards, which is the only sort of billiards set that contains 21 balls. (Typically billiards and pocket billiards sets contain 15 marked balls plus a shooter.) I believe this ball was designed and produced by George H. Burt of Millburn, NJ. as I have