Vincent van Gogh – The Night Cafe
Vincent van Gogh – The Night Cafe (1888) – Yale University Art Gallery.
Read MoreVincent van Gogh – The Night Cafe (1888) – Yale University Art Gallery.
Read MoreCopy of an engraved c1883 Alcock & Co advertisement for Alcock’s Sydney agent John Gardyne showing various Alcock products.
Read MoreAlcock & Co 1871 Advertisement
Read MoreMelbourne’s newest luxury hotel Oakwood Premier features a stunning Games Room which showcases a custom-made Alcocks Australis model full-size billiard table in Victorian Ash against a backdrop of Melbourne’s skyline as viewed from Southbank. Photography by Rhiannon Taylor.
Read MoreNote: the above picture shows a Gloucester model table; it does not show table No. 1020 Originally manufactured during the 1980s, Table No 1020 was extensively re-furbished during 2018, including: New English Trufast moulded rubber cushions New Strachan 6811 fine grade West of England cloth Slate bed checked and re-ground Show wood work cut back, touched up […]
Read MoreHelen Green Design Studio has created this stunning recreation room featuring an Alcocks Australis model 9ft pool table in a Smoke Haze finish with charcoal cloth.
Read MoreAlcocks today celebrates the birthday of our Managing Director George Taylor, only the sixth Managing Director in Alcocks 168 year history. Alcock & Co was founded in 1853 by the redoubtable Henry Upton Alcock, the Father of the billiard trade in Australia. After 77 years under the control of the Alcock family, in 1930 the […]
Read MoreAlcocks offers for sale antique and second-hand billiard tables. Click through to see some of our recent offerings.
Read MoreAlcocks earliest illustrated advertisement was published in “Bell’s Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle” on December 25th 1858. The firm’s founder Henry Upton Alcock was born in Dublin in 1823. After training as a cabinet-maker and learning the billiard trade in London, Alcock migrated to Melbourne in 1853 and commenced business as Alcock’s Furnishing Rooms […]
Read MoreTable No 1194 was made at the Alcock manufactory, 132 Russell Street Melbourne (now within the Melbourne CBD) during the 1870s. Like many Canted Leg Tables, it is made with a Cedar framework and Cushion Rails in Blackwood. Table 1194 is now offered for sale with: • New English Trufast moulded rubber cushions• New Strachan 6811 […]
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