Cricket Balls

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This is from the 1911 census and looks like Cork Bottons Ford Inside Crickett Ball - read Cork cores for Cricket Balls - but what are cork bottons?

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[KGarrad]

I read "Cork bottoms for inside cricket balls"?

[Crumblie]

This is from the 1911 census and looks like Cork Bottons Ford Inside Crickett Ball - read Cork cores for Cricket Balls - but what are cork bottons?

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Cork bottons were what Petty Officer Pertwee would sell to anyone stupid enough to buy them. Serious though I agree it says cork bottoms.

[Crumblie]

A cork bottom was possibly the cork core which was wound with string or twine before having a leather case stitched on.

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Thank you Crumbie, given that it is his own note and not a transcription, it does make you wonder if he knew PO Pertwee? but then, I do have one of his "floggle toggles"!

Serious though, a cork bottom could be a local term, but does seem a strange term to describe the cork core.

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[majm]

Have you contacted The MCC ... I am sure that someone there would be expected to know, otherwise they might be caught behind or worse, stumped.

JM

[stanmapstone]

A cork bottom was possibly the cork core which was wound with string or twine before having a leather case stitched on.

One definition from the OED. Bottom; A core on which to wind thread; (also) a skein or ball of thread or yarn. Also figurative. Now rare and archaic.

Stan

[radstockjeff]

Brings back memories of that infamous occupation  "Saggar Makers Bottom Knocker",
"Will the next contestant sign in please?"

[Redroger]

A cork bottom was possibly the cork core which was wound with string or twine before having a leather case stitched on.

One definition from the OED. Bottom; A core on which to wind thread; (also) a skein or ball of thread or yarn. Also figurative. Now rare and archaic.

Stan

Old dictionaries are very useful for this type of problem too.