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  1. 2nd July 2009, 04:50 PM #1
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    Default A Rarity of table design from Thurston .

    today I have been dismantleing a table in Richmond near london , the House ( a very large Georgian property ) apparently belonged to Tommy steel the actor in the past .
    Anyway a Rarity of a table in that the cushions have slate insert blocks inserted into the main body of the cushion to make

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    Interesting to see these curiosities are still out there. State of the art in it's day of course. According to the Ludgate magazine ( 1894 ) the Adama

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    Geoff, that's interesting!
    If you can take pi

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    I could take picture's but only with the property owners permission , you see some could use the images to make a break in to the property , we as bil

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    another unusual design for a billiard cushion that I have come across is the steel ribbon slip , for holding the cloth into the rebate , this table wa

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    A modern version of the Adamant cushion was manufactured in Northern Ireland by Conway Bros during the 80s, but instead of slate it had a steel inse

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    Geoff, sounds quite interesting, hopefully you can post some pictures.

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    I was going to post some pictures but the return part of the job ( re-install table ) was sub contracted out to our london part time fitter , and I wa

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