Skill Pool

A tall electro-mechanical playfield photographed in a domestic room, its lower cabinet front and ball-shooter plunger visible below the apron. The wood-grain playfield is dominated by a large purple-and-magenta diamond/kaleidoscope motif in the middle, built from a grid of roughly sixteen concentric coloured circles in teal, orange, pink, cream and grey. Two mirror-image triangular value panels flank it, each carrying a grinning cartoon man with slicked-back hair in a white shirt and tie, plus lettering reading 10 TIMES VALUE WHEN LIT and UP VALUE with a 5 COMBO badge. Lower down are two big cream-and-yellow circular bumpers side by side above two chrome flippers, with CHERRY and apple motifs in the slingshot areas and laughing boy heads. The upper third holds five pop bumpers with numbered 10, 30, 50 and 100 discs in red, yellow and green, ringed by metal ball guides, plus 50 POINTS SPECIAL WHEN OFF BONUS panels. The bottom apron is white with a red-bordered instruction card, a blue starburst, a BALLS PLAYED window, and a black metal apron strip. Dominant colours: purple/magenta, cream/white, red, and teal green.

A printed backglass panel with a red outer border and cream mottled wood-grain background. At top left a small red circle holding a white 'W' sits beside a red script wordmark. Below a green scalloped valance spans the width, and under it the title is lettered in large three-dimensional red block capitals with white edges and pale blue-grey drop shadows, tilted upward. A horizontal score strip shows six reel windows, flanked by brown coil spools, with crossed pool cues and a small blue chalk box behind. A green band carries four white numbered circles, 2, 5, 10 and 15. Below, GAME OVER is printed in red capitals on a brown bar above a row of red, white and blue zigzag triangles. Down the right edge, three framed picture insets each show a grinning red-haired cartoon man playing a green pool table: one in a tan suit with a cue, one in blue overalls leaning far over the table inside a grey oval, and one in a red suit raising his cue. Flat mid-century cartoon illustration in cream, red, blue, green and tan.

A hand-painted billiards-themed backglass with a bright red-orange outer border and a pale wood-grain grey field as background. Across the upper third, in large orange-tan block letters with a dark shadow, is the title SKILL POOL, arched slightly and set over a green scalloped swag that hangs from the top edge. In the top left corner, in red cursive script with an underline flourish, is the name Williams. Below the title, three white rectangles with heavy black borders carry the numerals 4, 6 and 2, flanked on both sides by clusters of thin orange vertical hash marks; a small orange pocket shape sits beneath them. A horizontal green band crosses the lower area, carrying four shaded numbered balls reading 2, 5, 10 and 15 from left to right. The bottom band is a row of large orange and blue zigzag triangles on white. Down the right-hand side are three separate picture panels, each containing a cartoon man in a white shirt at a green-felt pool table with cue and balls; the top panel is a rectangle with a blue-and-white checkered floor, the middle panel is oval, the bottom panel is rectangular. Condition: paint is crazed and the border is chipped and cracked, with a diagonal crack across the right-hand border.