Here is an article on Herman Rambow which appeared in the Chicago Tribune in 1967. Rambow died later that year. [The article is too large to upload, so click the link to see it].
Rambow article
Rambow article
Article on Rambow
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Rich93...Although I had moved to the Chicago suburbs (Park Forest) a couple of years earlier, my dad was a Sun Times man, so I would have missed seeing this article. Also, I wouldn't get exposed to pool for another 4 years, so even if I saw it, I might not have read it. Thanks to you, I have now. Nice find!
Scott Lee
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Scott Lee
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Before I knew anything about cues, I went to an estate sale and passed on buying a Willie Hoppe cue which I could have had cheap because I didn't know it was anything special. Everything from the table to the chalk and balls was vintage. There was also an old steel jointed cue with a wrap, no logo, mop inlays. The pool stuff was undoubtedly worth more than the rest of the estate sale combined but neither I nor the people running the sale knew.
Yep, I'm an idiot.
Yep, I'm an idiot.
alstl...Yeah, you missed out on that one. It's been my experience at estate sales, that typically the pool stuff goes for WAY more than it's really worth. Auctions have a way of doing that! LOL Sometimes you can get a deal, but it's less often than paying too much.
Scott Lee
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Scott Lee
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The estate sales I've been to in St Louis were not auctions, just walk in and look around and make an offer on what you want. They almost always refuse to sell the cues separately, they want you to buy the table and then you get the rest. Most of the time it wasn't worth it, but in this particular case I could have had the table and the rest for under $500. I could have left the table and still made out, especially if that old unmarked cue with the steel joint and the mop inlays turned out to be a ...