If a cue's 'owner' has no proof aka receipt/pics/contract/etc just how is the estate supposed to return it? Just saying "yeah, that's my Ginacue" ain't gonna work. Knowing how JS stored his cues they are looking at multiple cases full of cues that may have zero provenance. It sounds like Joe kept a lot of this in his head. If he had it all written down this wouldn't be the problem its turned into.
If a claimant has absolutely no documentation proving his ownership, then he will lose his claim...simple. Others, who do have actual documentation, photos, emails, texts, mail receipts, etc, will be able to match that proof with the (hopefully) still retained cues that the estate should still have and retrieve their property. The only thing needed is the cooperation of the people in charge of the Estate, which seems to be lacking. Legal counsel is badly needed here...required.
It’s not that I can’t play on terrible valleys, I have won many weekly tournaments on them, it’s just that I don’t like them at all. If all I had to play on were valleys I would quit and do something else.