VINTAGE ARAMITH BUMPER POOL BALLS Belgian billiards ball set 2-1/8" '70s '80s

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A vintage, Belgian-made set of cue sport balls
ARAMITH BUMPER POOL BILLIARD BALLS SET
DETAILS:
Classic Aramith bumper pool balls!
Set includes 10 2-1/8" bumper pool balls - 5 red, 5 white (1 of each color is marked). Also included is the original box. The red balls are more beautiful than they appear in the photos - they are more of a deep ruby red color. The white balls show their age as they have become a bit yellowed over time.
Made in Belgium!
CONDITION:
Pre-owned; complete. The balls, particularly the white have some marks from previous use. Please see photos.
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Bumper pool is a pocket billiards game played on an octagonal or rectangular table fitted with an array of fixed cushioned obstacles, called bumpers, within the interior of the table surface.[1][2] The surface of the table has the same coating as a standard pool table. Unlike most types of billiards tables, there are only two pockets....
Typically bumper pool tables are smaller than a regulation pool table.[2][3] The table has two pockets, placed opposite one another, located at the center of two of the rails.[2]
Most tables have twelve bumpers, although some tables have fourteen or sixteen.[2][3] Two bumpers flank each pocket.[2] The remaining bumpers are arranged in a cross in the center of the table, with one line of the cross in line with the pockets.[2] At the center of the cross, there is an open space just large enough to allow a ball to pass through. Tables with fourteen bumpers have three rather than two bumpers on each side of the center space on the line midway between the two holes....
The game is played with 5 red and 5 white balls, with one marked ball in each set.[1][2][4] At the start of play, each set of balls is arranged on five spots near each edge of the table by a pocket with the marked ball placed directly in front of the pocket.[2] The object is for a player to sink all of their balls into their pocket at the opposite end of the table.[2][4] A player's marked ball must be sunk before the player can sink any other balls.[2][4] Unlike most other billiard games, there is no designated cue ball: each ball can be shot into the pocket.[1][2]
To begin play, both players shoot their marked ball simultaneously, banking the ball off the cushion to their right and attempting to sink their ball in their pocket at the other end of the table.[1][2] If both players sink their first shot they each select another ball, place it in front of their opponent's pocket, and repeat the simultaneous shot.[1][2] If both players successfully sink all five of their balls in this fashion the game ends in a draw.[1][2]
If, on the initial simultaneous shot, one player fails to sink his or her marked ball in the pocket, the player who successfully sank a ball or who came closest to his or her own pocket shoots next. A player's turn continues until he or she fails to sink a ball." (wikipedia.org)
"A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards, pocket billiards, pyramid or snooker) provide a flat surface usually made of quarried slate, that is covered with cloth (usually of a tightly-woven worsted wool called baize), and surrounded by vulcanized rubber cushions, with the whole elevated above the floor.[1]:115, 238 More specific terms are used for specific sports, such as snooker table and pool table, and different-sized billiard balls are used on these table types. An obsolete term is billiard board, used in the 16th and 17th centuries....
Other types of billiard tables are used for specific games, such as Russian pyramid which uses a '12 ft by 6 ft' table (similar to a snooker table but with much smaller pockets), and Asian four ball which uses a pocketless 8 ft by 4 ft table. Games such as bagatelle often had more than six holes, including straight through the bed in the middle of the table, a feature still found in bar billiards and bumper pool.,,,
There are novelty billiard tables, often for pool, that come in various shapes including zig-zag, circular, and (especially for bumper pool) hexagonal. A circular table featured prominently in the 1972 film Silent Running. For the home market, many manufacturers have produced convertible billiard tables (in the broad sense) that double as dining tables or as table tennis, foosball, or air hockey, tables, with removable hard tops.[14] Home pool tables, which often lack a ball-return system, are commonly either 4 × 8 ft or 3.5 × 7 ft models, a medium between 3 × 6 ft. bar/pub tables and 4.5 × 9 ft tournament-size models. Low-end tables tend toward the smaller range, and may have MDF or wood beds as an alternative to slate; those with light-weight beds may be foldable for storage, as with table tennis. Miniature tables range in size from tabletop 1 × 1.6 ft to free-standing 2.5 × 5 ft models, and use scaled-down cues and balls." (wikipedia.org)
"A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker. The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of the balls differ depending upon the specific game being played. Various particular ball properties such as hardness, friction coefficient and resilience are important to accuracy....
Various other games have their own variants of billiard balls. English billiards balls are like carom balls but are the same size as snooker balls. Russian pyramid uses a set of fifteen numbered but otherwise all-white balls, and a red or yellow cue ball that may be even larger than carom billiards balls at 68 mm (211⁄16 in) or 72 mm (24⁄5 in). Kaisa has the same pocket and ball dimensions but uses only five balls: one yellow, two red and two cue balls, one for each player.[15] Bumper pool requires four white and four red object balls, and two special balls, one red with a white spot and the other white with red spot; all are usually ​2 1⁄8 inch (approximately 52.5 mm) in diameter. Bar billiards uses six or seven white balls (depending on regional variations) and one red ball 1 7⁄8 in (48 mm) in diameter." (wikipedia.org)
"Saluc S.A. is a Belgian speciality manufacturing company. Founded in 1923, they are best known for their Aramith brand billiard balls, and are the manufacturer under license of the Brunswick Centennial pool ball line. The company also manufactures other sorts of balls and bearings with high tolerances[clarification needed] for a wide variety of industrial and consumer-product applications, such as Logitech trackballs.
On March 5, 2007, Armand Capital Group, parent company of Saluc, purchased the C. L. Bailey Co. of Marionville, Missouri. They also established new warehousing and office space for their precision ball division, entering the United States industrial ball industry.
Saluc is working on a new prototype table[clarification needed] called the Fusion table which features an all-metal frame, and is being developed via the engineering staff of the C. L. Bailey Co. " (wikipedia.org)