Billiard scoreboard
Thurston and Co.
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1911 - circa 1936
Materials
Walnut, ivory and glass
Measurements
84 x 116 cm
Place of origin
London
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Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1288230.2
Summary
A mahogany combined billiards, pyramids and pool scoreboard, London, circa 1911-1936, by Thurston & co. Ltd., with shaped cornice above a board front centred by a rectangular blackboard, above and below is a long thin open rectangle containing a round black-painted pole painted with yellow numbers to each side in ranges of twenty, a turned ebonized knob to the right side of the scoreboard at the end of each numbered pole, this allows the pole to be rotated to show a different range of numbers, each of these numbered poles flanked to the outer edge with a carved ivory pointer which slides along a strip to indicate the score, the centre blackboard flanked to each side with two columns of ivory cabochons stained various colours including red and yellow, between these columns of cabouchons are shaped black labels painted with yellow lettering reading 'WHITE', 'RED', 'YELLOW', 'GREEN', 'BROWN' and 'BLUE' to the left side and 'PINK', 'WHITE', 'RED', 'YELLOW', 'GREEN' and 'BROWN' to the right side, with moulded base atop a rectangular box section with hinged drop-front door inset with three glazed panels, the interior divided into three sections, each with a single shelf and containing a selection of variously covered balls, on shaped base. A small canted rectangular ivorine label affixed above the blackboard inscribed 'THURSTON & CO. LONDON'. Together with a billiard table (1288230.1), billiard balls (1288230.3), billiard cues (1288230.4), billiard cue racks (1288230.5 &.6).
Provenance
In 1937 Sir Geoffrey Mander and his wife Rosalie gifted Wightwick Manor, its contents and gardens to the National Trust. Sir Geoffrey and his family continued to occupy and manage Wightwick adding to the collection in collaboration with the National Trust. Sir Geoffrey died in 1962 but Lady Mander continued to live at Wightwick until her death in 1988. This billiard table and its accessories are listed in the Wightwick Manor 1937 inventory.
Marks and inscriptions
Thurston and Co (Ivory label engraved)
Makers and roles
Thurston and Co., manufacturer