Technical Information – From page 3 of the 1882 J. M. Brunswick and Balke Company catalog:
This table is furnished as carom, pool or both combined.
The main object in the construction of the Brilliant Novelty and the one most noticeable is that it embodies all the more salient or most important features that have rendered popular all the other styles of the J.M. Brunswick & Balke Co.’s make.
The purchaser of a Brilliant Novelty possesses a table that has all the advantages and good points of all the other styles of tables of our manufacture. The Brilliant Novelty is a happy combination of the most popular tables and will rapidly take the foremost place in the estimation of all players and purchasers of billiard or pool tables.
The illustration here conveys a good idea of the appearance of the Brilliant Novelty. It is finished and handsomely inlaid in many different colors, made up from California laurel, burl ash, french walnut, birds-eye maple, mahogany, rosewood, tulipwood and ebony. It is supplied with the finest of Vermont slate bed, Simonis cloth and a first class outfit of everything necessary, and the price is reasonable.
Pool tables with ivory pool balls instead of Hyatt balls, $50 additional to these prices:
Carom, 4×8′, $275. 4 1/2′ x 9′, $300. 5×10′, $325.
Pool, 4 or 6 pocket, 4×8′, $300. 4 1/2′ x 9′, $325. 5×10′, $350.
Combination, 4×8′, $350. 4 1/2′ x 9′, $375. 5 x 10′, $400.
