Carrom Board, The Carrom Company, manufactured 1914-1939

Carrom Board, The Carrom Company, manufactured 1914-1939

“Carrom” may not be a familiar word to many, but is familiar in Ludington, Michigan. The word Carrom is non-specific, generally describing a play in eight-ball pool where one ball strikes another ball before falling into the pocket. This game uses colored rings instead of balls, and legend has it that the board’s inventor, Henry Haskell, created the game around 1890 to keep children out of pool halls. In reality, the game has closer roots to “Karroom,” a game played in India. By the late 1980s, the company had made more than 50 different styles of the game, including checkers, bowling and baseball.

The design of this game board, the Style A Deluxe Combination, dates back to a 1902 patent. This patent style was used well into the 1940s. The name of the company itself, “The Carrom Company,” gives the time frame of 1914-1939 for the production date of this particular board. This board boasts a checkerboard side and a Crokinole (a disk-based game, similar to bumper pool) side of the board. Each gameplay side has a felt surface as well as a lacquered surface.

Object #2003.37.1

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