Boulingrin ball in Gaïac wood of 1,3kg

Name: boulingrin ball / bawls for lawn bowling. Condition: very good condition, shows some traces of minor wear due to its use during lawn bowling. Date: late 18th / early 19th century. Manufacturing: gaïac wood / insert in ivory. Weight: 1, 306 kg / 2, 878 lbs / 46.07 oz. Details: Engraved inscriptions "4004" "jr racey ltd" on the wood. 2 inserts in ivory with the initials "we" on the light side, and "2" on the heavy side. — boulingrin bowls —'speciality and manufacturing process. Boulingrin's bowls are not spherical, but slightly crushed at both poles. Their shape is asymmetrical: one pole is more crushed than the other. This is in addition to the fact that each ball has one side heavier than the other. The inscriptions specify which side is heaviest (in our case, the side 2 is the heaviest). All of these characteristics give an elliptical trajectory, especially marked when their speed is low. To reach the target, the player must balance his strength and his line of fire. In the middle ages, bowling balls were made of yew, ash or oak wood. Since the 17th or 18th centuries, it is the gaïac, which is used. Gaïac is a very hard greenish brown wood. It is sometimes called, along with other species, ironwood or ironwood. Its density, one of the highest in the world, is 1, 301, so that, unlike most woods that float on water, the gaïac flows. — history of the boulingrin —' Bowling, from the english bowling green, is a bowling-style bowling game whose name refers to the grassy field on which the game is practiced (the name has now become lawn bowling). This bowling game from england is similar to bowling and bowling. The game consists of a multitude of balls, two teams and a piglet, or "jack". The goal is to get as close as it gets to this little white ball, rolling the balls slightly flattened on the edge while placing one foot on a kind of bath mat. The interest of the game is not in the throw as such, but in the orientation of the balls. Born in england in the 12th century, this game and its traditions are less and less practiced. Boulingrin's balls, especially the wooden one, become prized collectibles.

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