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Rack for Pool-Balls Patent Model #265,214

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Mr. William Bares of Poughkeepsie, NY came up with this real time-saver for the aficionados of pool table - after a game when the pocketed balls have been put in the wall rack - now with this invention a simple lift of a lever and all the racks tilt so that the balls roll down, as in a marble roll toy, to the bottom - a clever device rendered very realistically in Victorian Eastlake style so popular in the 1880's, the model is mounted on a contemporary stand and is offered with original tags and patent paper copies 13" t.

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