WEBVTT 00:02.000 --> 00:04.500 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% GUEST: This has been passed down to me through my family. It is a pool table game board that 00:04.500 --> 00:09.233 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% belonged to my great-grandfather. He had it in his pool hall in Ringsted, Iowa. 00:09.233 --> 00:13.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: So when do you think that it was actually first in business in the pool hall? 00:13.833 --> 00:17.566 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% GUEST: I haven't been able to find out, but I think through the 1930s and '40s. 00:17.566 --> 00:19.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% APPRAISER: How long have you had it? 00:19.500 --> 00:21.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GUEST: I've had it two years. 00:21.633 --> 00:23.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: It's really a kind of a neat thing, you know? And a lot of people wouldn't even 00:23.866 --> 00:28.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% know what this is. I had a bit of an ill-spent youth and spent some time in the pool halls, 00:28.633 --> 00:33.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% and I remember games like this. This whole board would lay on a pool table. 00:34.466 --> 00:36.433 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Yes. 00:36.433 --> 00:40.433 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: And this part would be nudged up under the cushion. And because there was a 00:42.433 --> 00:46.000 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% slope here, you would, you would shoot a pool ball up there, and the pool balls would lodge 00:47.966 --> 00:51.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% right in these things and stay there. Well, it would stay there because the table is flat. 00:51.833 --> 00:56.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% And you can play three different games. You can play a poker game. So you'd shoot five 00:58.833 --> 01:01.966 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% balls, and whoever got the highest hand won. And then you could play a keno game, where 01:06.566 --> 01:11.566 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% you, whoever got the highest number won the game. Or you could play the baseball game, 01:13.466 --> 01:16.433 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% which is this beautiful green here. As we see, it's a Schaffer combination recreation 01:16.433 --> 01:21.433 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% board, made in Peoria, Illinois. That's really kind of interesting. Peoria is not too far 01:23.400 --> 01:27.400 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% from Chicago, and in the roaring '20s, Chicago was a major manufacturing place for gambling 01:29.366 --> 01:33.966 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% machines, slot machines, all manner of table games. And it would make sense that a company 01:35.866 --> 01:39.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% like this would be there, because this is a gambling sort of device, and also a gaming 01:41.833 --> 01:45.100 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% implement. I think this dates from the 1920s. What's really appealing about this is, it's 01:47.166 --> 01:49.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% so colorful, and it's really in wonderful condition. What I really like is the fact 01:49.666 --> 01:53.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% that you got this beautiful graphic of the baseball game. Oh, it's pretty sturdily manufactured, 01:53.600 --> 01:58.566 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% so, I mean, it had to stand up to a lot of abuse with all these pool balls scattering 02:00.633 --> 02:04.500 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% around. It's good thick plywood, and nicely finished, and then decorated with these wonderful 02:05.366 --> 02:06.366 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% decals. 02:06.366 --> 02:07.900 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Yes. 02:07.900 --> 02:09.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% APPRAISER: Do you have any idea exactly what it cost? 02:09.366 --> 02:12.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% GUEST: It cost $22 when it's new. It's in pencil on the back. 02:12.166 --> 02:17.166 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% APPRAISER: $22. It's worth a little more now. It's very hard to evaluate some things, especially 02:19.166 --> 02:22.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% when it's a really rare thing. This is only the third one I know of that have been sold 02:22.033 --> 02:26.900 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% at auction. If I were to put a reasonable auction estimate on this, I think I would 02:26.900 --> 02:31.900 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% probably... try to be conservative, try to be realistic. I think it should have an auction 02:34.866 --> 02:36.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% estimate of around $1,200 to $1,500. 02:36.733 --> 02:38.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GUEST: Mm-hmm. Oh, very good. 02:38.766 --> 02:42.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: And, you know, I'm just really excited to see it. It brings back my youth 02:42.833 --> 02:43.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% in the pool halls.