Product code: Antique purchases
Rare antique / vintage item ! A must have for collectors ! Comes with story print as well John Wesley Hyatt (1837-1920) of the Albany Billiard Ball Company, undated. Hyatt purchases is credited for his use and production of celluloid. (Albany County Historical Association's Hall of Fame/Times Union archive) June 15, 1869: The United States Patent Office issued Patent No. 91,341 to John Wesley Hyatt of Albany, as well as his brother Isaiah S. Hyatt of Rockford, Ill., for the "improved method of making solid collodion," an early advancement in thermoplastics that came to be known as celluloid. J.W. Hyatt, a printer, was likely inspired by the $10,000 prize offered by the New York City-based company Phelan and Collender to anyone who could come up with an alternative to ivory, at that time the only desirable component for billiard balls. He saved so many elephants by creating this !.
Rare antique / vintage item ! A must have for collectors ! Comes with story print as well John Wesley Hyatt (1837-1920) of the Albany Billiard Ball Company, undated. Hyatt purchases is credited for his use and production of celluloid. (Albany County Historical Association's Hall of Fame/Times Union archive) June 15, 1869: The United States Patent Office issued Patent No. 91,341 to John Wesley Hyatt of Albany, as well as his brother Isaiah S. Hyatt of Rockford, Ill., for the "improved method of making solid collodion," an early advancement in thermoplastics that came to be known as celluloid. J.W. Hyatt, a printer, was likely inspired by the $10,000 prize offered by the New York City-based company Phelan and Collender to anyone who could come up with an alternative to ivory, at that time the only desirable component for billiard balls. He saved so many elephants by creating this !.