Of or pertaining to the game of billiards.
A core phenolic center is made that is not of high tolerance. Then, at least 2 additional layers are built up over the core, each of better tolerance. In most cases, only the outer layer has the color and design. The exact material, method and number of layers varies from type to type. There is a reason one set may cost $160 and another only $60, and it generally is assocaited with the effort and tolerance.
The population of Ivory Coast around the 1900s was 950,000.
A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.
Unless the balls are made of ivory used pool balls have very little value. Balls go out of round as a result of normal play, and therefore a new set of cheaply made $30 balls is almost certainly superior for play than set that has had a lot of use. Ivory pool balls have sold for more than $200 apiece. If the pool balls are not collectible, such as ivory, they have little collectible value.
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They're usually made of a plastic resin.
Used pool balls of any type have very little value unless they are older bone or ivory collectible types.
Plastic was a material created as a cheap substitute for ivory. Ivory at the time was mainly used to make pool balls, but elephants became illegal to hunt so they needed an alternative.
Celluloid was discovered by John Wesley Hyatt in 1869 as a substitute for ivory in billiard balls.
Early empires gained wealth and power by trading slaves, gold, and ivory.