Rosewood sample, billiards cue
name: label: maker
content: Brunswick Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This rosewood sample was donated by Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company of Chicago, Illinois. This sample was donated alongside seven other different wood samples to provide examples of the different wood with which billiards cues were made. Brunswick was founded in 1845 by John Brunswick, a Swiss immigrant and master woodworker who began to make billiards tables. Today, the corporation manufactures billiards materials, rubber, bowling materials, music materials, sporting goods, boating and marine materials, and other technologies.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Forestry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Brunswick Company, Chicago, IL
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.18FP02.02
label: catalog number
content: 18FP02.02
label: catalog number
content: W874
label: accession number
content: 062582
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Wood Sample, Rosewood
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 13.335 cm x 3.175 cm