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Billiard Ball Tube. Los Angeles, F.G. Thayer, ca. 1920. Handsome wood turned tube. Magician can use the tube to vanish, produce, or exchange one billiard ball for another. Includes two white Thayer billiard balls of slightly different diameters, and a turned wooden cap for one end of the tube. Tube 5 x 1 ¾". Very good condition. Rare.


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Date:
2011-10-29

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