When Brunswick, a company reporting approximately $3.9 billion in net sales last year, needed to update its popular Gold Crown pool tables, Hutton offered the challenge to graduate students.

Your art deco-style pool table is an inlaid-mahogany Regina model with six legs. It has a 1-inch-thick slate top. It appeared in the 1922 and 1923 catalogs, but it may have been made a few years ...

As pool grew in popularity, however, most of the 3-cushion tables were eventually replaced with Brunswick Anniversary 9-foot pocketed tables, like a couple of the tables up for auction.