Late 19th C. Very Rare Engraved Clay 21 Pocket Billiards Ball design-technics What I've learned about Harold

What I've learned about Harold Zussin

I have come to think of him as a jig doll version of Mick Jagger (Mick Jigger

with its painterly big black and green spots topped with drippy orange blobs here and there

which I purchased online from a seller who did not know anything about it--I was just immediately taken with the evocativeness of the portrait

Late 19th C. Very Rare Engraved Clay 21 Pocket Billiards Ball design-technics What I've learned about HaroldThis, it turns out, is is a super rare onethe 21st ball in a c. 1880s set of baseball pocket billiards, which is the only sort of billiards set that contains 21 balls. (Typically billiards and pocket billiards sets contain 15 marked balls plus a shooter.) I believe this ball was designed and produced by George H. Burt of Millburn, NJ. I have found documentation of a few standard sets out there made of clay and engraved in just this manner (with