c1891 Pennsylvania Billiards Championship Imperial Photo P/U

[CarltonHendricks]

Hey thanks everyone...I appreciate the approval as it really set me back...The seller let me think about it for about it for a week...as I told him I already had my L.A. vacation planned to the California Antiquarian Book Fair in Pasadena, which was on the 12th of this month...also went to the L.A. Pottery Show and the Rose Bowl Flea...Didn't see anything all weekend in the gotta have it level...so pulled the trigger when I got home...Seller deals only in Billiard stuff and is a wealth of information...

I was curious what the advanced photo collectors would have to say about it (David Cycleback) as I don't know photos...just know what I like...I call it an imperial photo...but I don't actually know for sure what constitutes an "imperial" photo...I've always loosely termed larger 19th century photos as imperials...the image exclusively is 15 7/8" wide x 12" tall...









On the subject of billiards memorabilia...the week previous to the California Antiquarian Book Fair...I went to the San Francisco Antiquarian Book and paper fair...There I saw an 1865 Spanish billiards table catalog from a billiard table maker in Barcelona...I'm not a big catalog guy but man this was off the chart...$1,200.00...so I passed as that would have shot down my photo!!!...tons of page after page of engravings of different billiard tables...just a few shots above



But before I saw the billiard catalog I spotted probably the greatest Duke Kahanamoku poster on the planet...I asked the price the dealer said he paid too much...$2,500.00...and I could have it for $3,500.00....man I hated passing on it but 35 would have killed both my vacation and the billiards photo I had on ice...phew it was great...story I heard was it sold before the show opened...then the guy that offered it to me got it from that guy...so went up the food chain twice before I even got to it...So a week later I saw the same dealer in Pasadena...still had it...then when the show was about to close I walked by and it was gone...I said you sold it?...said yes for the same amount I offered it to you for ($3,500.00)...