Identifier: pecksnydersencyc00peck (find matches)
Title: Peck & Snyder's encyclopædia and price list of all out and indoor sports and games; also sporting goods of every description ..
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Peck & Snyder, New York. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Sporting goods
Publisher: New York, Peck & Snyder
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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do,dado, i3i do.12 do.io do. per dozen, 75 cts. 50 cts.00 cts~50 cts,00 cts,50 cts,25 cts. NEW GAME FOB LAWK AKD PABLOR, FOTJR STYLES. No. I, Large Stick, 12 Hoops, coloured, complete in chestnut case,with handle ...„ 2, Coloured Sticky 12 Hoops, coloured ... ,, 2h, Coloured Stick, 9 Hoops, coloured ... „ 3, Plain Coloured Stick, 9 Hoops, plain Field Ring Toss $2 50 per set. IER SET. (>4 00 cts, 3 00 cts, 2 50 cts, 2 00 cts. THE BEST SELLING GAME EVER PUBLISHED. PARC HE ESI. No. 1, Paper edition, with Dice and Counters $XOO cts, M 2, Cloth do. with Dice, fancy Counters, and Dice Boxes... 2 00 cts,90 3» Cloth extra edition, with Dice, Ivory Counters, and Leather Dice Boxes 3 00 cts. N.3.—Our full and Winter Catalogue of Gaires, Toy Steam Engines, Locomotives andtEngines, Photographic Apparatus, Chemical Magic Skates, Parlor Croque, and ail new anduseful English, French, German, and American Inccor Spcrta, will be ready by December 1st* AMUSETTE, Or PORTABLE FAMILY BILLIARDS.
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This game has met with flattering success wherever introduced, and theris no reason why so popular a game should not meet with a ready sale every-where, as good players pronounce it an excellent substitute for regularBilliards. The implements are as follows :— 4 Clamps or Corner Posts; 3 Coloured Cords (prepared for the purpose),each 18 feet long; 4 Boxwood Balls, coloured, in imitation of regular -BilliardBalls, and handsomely polished; 2 Cues (same as used on large table, butsomewhat smaller); 1 Bridge; 2 Dial Markers for keeping game; 4 PolishedPins, to represent pockets. The Cords will be found equal to the best cushions, It is packed (withexception of the Cues) in a small box (8 in. by 6 in.); is not cumbersome orbulky; can be adjusted to a table in five minutes, and removed in as short atime, and can also be packed in a trunk and carried when travelling. Those accustomed to playing Billiards can do so at home, upon their owndining or sitting room tables, with as much skill and

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