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punkrawk77

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Black Beautys
« on: January 13, 2004, 02:42:35 AM »
Went bowling last night. So many house balls that were old black beautys. Is this black beauty a rare thing to find being used as an old house ball?
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punkrawk77

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Re: Black Beautys
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2004, 06:43:53 PM »
I was thinking of taking one of them. Are they worth anything?

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AdrianS

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Re: Black Beautys
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2004, 06:56:49 PM »
My old home centre had heaps of them on the rack, lots of 12-13lb'ers, plus some green rubber things with 'santa' written on them. The lanes and machines were ex Japan and some of the house balls have 'Ashai Starlanes' written on them so i assume the package, balls and all, is from there. Some of the Beauties were better than others, some were old and 'glazed' looking, one or 2 of them almost looked like LT-48's. Good for winding it up on the old Lacquer lanes we bowled on till 1990.
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Re: Black Beautys
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2004, 08:15:56 PM »
We have a 14 pound UN-Punched Black Beauty in our shop.  It sits there as a novelty trophy like object along with 2 16 poung Michael Jordan Basketballs.  A really common great ball in it's day, cousin to the Black Diamond and later Lt-48.  Really rare nudrilled.

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Re: Black Beautys
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2004, 10:24:49 PM »
my house used to be a brunswick recreation center from 1962 till 2000. over half of the house balls are black beautys. brunswick produced this ball from the 1930's until the 1970's----possibly the biggest selling rubber ball in history.
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