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Cricket Balls
« on: Sunday 26 July 20 17:26 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Cricket Balls
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 26 July 20 18:26 BST (UK) »
I read "Cork bottoms for inside cricket balls"?
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Re: Cricket Balls
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 26 July 20 21:10 BST (UK) »
Quote from: floggle toggle 2 on Sunday 26 July 20 17:26 BST (UK)
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.

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Re: Cricket Balls
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 26 July 20 21:14 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Cricket Balls
« Reply #4 on: Monday 27 July 20 05:42 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Cricket Balls
« Reply #5 on: Monday 27 July 20 06:33 BST (UK) »
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.

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Re: Cricket Balls
« Reply #6 on: Monday 27 July 20 08:44 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Crumblie on Sunday 26 July 20 21:14 BST (UK)
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.

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Re: Cricket Balls
« Reply #7 on: Monday 27 July 20 09:08 BST (UK) »
Brings back memories of that infamous occupation  "Saggar Makers Bottom Knocker",
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Re: Cricket Balls
« Reply #8 on: Monday 27 July 20 12:19 BST (UK) »
Quote from: stanmapstone on Monday 27 July 20 08:44 BST (UK)
Quote from: Crumblie on Sunday 26 July 20 21:14 BST (UK)
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.

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