What a waste of money! I had read the reviews that mentioned a sticker that had to be removed. The balls arrived in a box and each ball was covered by a large sticker. Not the easy to peel off type of sticker, but the ruin your manicure type of sticker. In an effort to remove the sticker, I attempted to use Goo-Be-Gone. Though this eventually enabled me to remove the large sticker covering about 1/3 of the ball, it also removed the "antiqued" finish, leaving me with a cheap imitation billiard ball. Thanks a lot for nothing.