Late 19th C. Very Rare Engraved Clay 21 Pocket Billiards Ball seascape with mountain and the structure of the

and the structure of the super tight fitting lid

Really a lovely little parquetry set

the game was played by describing each syllable of the answer as a separate word before describing the answer as a whole

which looks to me to be splitting a piece of wood

Late 19th C. Very Rare Engraved Clay 21 Pocket Billiards Ball seascape with mountain and the structure of theThis, it turns out, is is a super rare onethe 21st 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. I have found documentation of a few standard sets out there made of clay and engraved in just this manner (with