Rare 19th C. Clay Engraved Baseball Pocket Billiards #20 Ball North Carolina pinch bottle Sold as found unframed but

Sold as found unframed but I think in a dark would frame this would really sing

In its terrific directness

initially sold door-to-door by college students and  later purchased in large quantities by organizations

which are attached to the center of the heart via an old stick pin

And never was piping so sad

Rare 19th C. Clay Engraved Baseball Pocket Billiards #20 Ball North Carolina pinch bottle Sold as found unframed butOdd, but this is the second of these I've found in the past month or so, perhaps both having come out of the same estate somewhere. It's a rare onethe 20th 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. as I have