Ball, table curling
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- Fonds / Collection
- Rupert Harrison Collection
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Description
- Steel ball encircled by red rubber.
- Repository
- West Vancouver Art Museum
- Fonds / Collection
- Rupert Harrison Collection
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Accession Number
- 1999.016.004
- Photo / Negative Number
- Roll 14: 11-13
- Origin - Country
- Canada
- Origin - Province / Territory
- British Columbia
- Narrative
- Roxx, was born in West Van in the early 1940s. This unique game, also known as Table Curling, was played on 40 foot long. linoleum covered tables. The roxx, steel balls encircled by hand-lathed maple and rubber, were curled from one end to the other. Players used T-shaped sticks as a sighting aid and to retrieve the roxx.
- Subject Access
- Sports
- Table Curling
- Roxx
- Artifact Category
- Recreational Artifacts: Sports Equipment
- Description
- Steel ball encircled by red rubber.
- Height
- 6.5
- Outside Diameter
- 10.5
- Material
- Steel, rubber
- Colour
- Silver, red
- Repository
- West Vancouver Art Museum
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