Keep it Classy, Earth!

As you all might have realized, at Mr. Rockets we're all about class, style and very very awesome things.  And nothing screams out those three qualities more loudly or in such extravagance as this beauty of a pool table.  So you see why I had to share it with all of you!

This, reader, is the Queen's Jubilee Billiard Table, made of black walnut, comissioned for the Queen Victoria Jubliee Exhibition in Manchester in 1887.  It might be hard to even look at any other pool table after seeing this Orne & sons Ltd. creation!

According to the website where I made this find, "The cushion friezes are decorated with ribbons of quotations from Shakespeare, Tennyson, Scott and Byron; themselves entwined with over fifty species of wild flowers and native British birds. Beneath the friezes are two long and six short panels depicting numerous countries through allegory, flora, fauna and industry."

BUT WAIT!  There's more!

You see those figures lounging about on the side panel?  Why, there you'll see William of Normandy, Henry I, Henry II, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, Edward II, Edward IV, Elizabeth of York, James I and Charles I.  A pool table fit for royalty, in the absolute literal sense of the word.

If one were to purchase this item, one would also be purchasing that imposing cabinet that looms above the table.  There's your cue cabinet!  The cupboard was made to resemble a door within a frame, surmounted by a broken pediment enclosing a lion.

"The door is carved with seven panels; the upper four coats or arms show Victoria during the most important stages in her reign. The central horizontal section has a profile of Victoria and Albert beside Windsor Castle and the lower section depicts the royal residences of Holyrood and Caernavon. The second section also features slides which expose a game with stars and coloured counters, which can be rotated to form a scoreboard. The ormolu door furniture comprises a handplate and two push plates intricately worked with arabesques and lion masks."

So you've seen the table and are hungry to purchase this fine work or artistry mixed with the gentleman's game.  Well, for a low low price of one million pounds, the only thing holding me back is an apparent lack of pool cues to go in the cabinet. 

Shame.  I was so looking forward to this purchase.

Feeling outclassed by a billiard table,

-Dan