HELP ID'!--Vintage Cue with unique Joint--

acedonkeyace

acedonkeyace

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Please help me with any info you might know about this cue, year of make, who might the maker be, US European, Japanese, etc.

Any history or any info would be appreciated. Planned on putting it in my collection and looked like it was made a while back, like maybe in the 1930-1950's, but i dont know.

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Thanks

Mike
 
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acedonkeyace said:
Please help me with any info you might know about this cue, year of make, who might the maker be, US European, Japanese, etc.

Any history or any info would be appreciated. Planned on putting it in my collection and looked like it was made a while back, like maybe in the 1930-1950's, but i dont know.

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Thanks

Mike
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Unless my PC is set up wrong, your urls aren't working.
EDIT- never mind..they are visible now.
 
It looks like Robert Alford liked to play pool, and also was somewhat proficient on a lathe. Is that copper wound around the handle? Looks like the copper wire from the motor winding shop we used in the Navy. Looks like wood burned rings and signature, and knurled/grooved work on the butt... probably grooved after finding it was too back-heavy.

Interesting joint. With everything else looking like wood/metal shop personal project time, I wonder if it was something scavenged or if it was designed for a cue?
 
It was on Ebay for a while.

Wood looks Asian to me, just guessing, maybe Ramin? Might be something cooked up by somebody with access to a lathe....and Asian wood. It's old....

I am picturing a US sailor, machinist mate, in WWII or shortly after throwing this thing together.

IMHO it is a trinket, a curiosity.



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I threw the owner an offer, just as a curiosity, to see

how the thing was put together and they accepted the offer. I wanted to look at the joint assembly and butt section and what the woods might be. Just another curiosity to put into my collection of transitional pieces.

Thanks for any info, I had never seen a joint like this, like a hybrid of a schmelke and some turn of the century joints.

But I dont know for sure, will give some feedback when I see it in person and can take a closer look.

mike
 
The cue is not a cane, the shaft does not fit into the butt-section.

Also, the material that is coming loose is a leather wrap that has come loose.

Any other info would be appreciated.

mike
 
I bet it is very rare and one of a kind. I also bet that it will be for sale soon at 10 times what you paid for it.

Probably worth about $20.00
 
jemerson23 said:
I bet it is very rare and one of a kind. I also bet that it will be for sale soon at 10 times what you paid for it.

Probably worth about $20.00
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Some people buy low and sell high.

Some people buy high and sell higher.

Yet others buy higher and sell highest.

Lastly there are those that buy at whatever and sell at OMFG are you kidding me?

$20? Maybe, on a good day. But I have seen sectional laundry poles that probably made better cues....and were just as "rare"...and handmade.... Jeezus I shouldn't give ideas...next thing you know we'll see "rare" $500 laundry poles for sale.



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Slim Limpy said:
Listen here,

if you people can't appreciate the beauty of my cue pictured here, why don't you just go look and comment on other threads?

This cue was conceived and designed during my Post Modern Industrial Concept period and is very representative of the idioms used during that period of innovative and aggressive artistic upheaval.

Any more negativity regarding this cue and I may just have to go NPR on you people!
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Well why didn't you say so in the fist place? :D

It must simply be priceless then. :D



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acedonkeyace said:
Please help me with any info you might know about this cue, year of make, who might the maker be, US European, Japanese, etc.

Any history or any info would be appreciated. Planned on putting it in my collection and looked like it was made a while back, like maybe in the 1930-1950's, but i dont know.

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Mike
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This cue is very rare Triple-C, or Cane Cue Conversion by Robbie Alford.
If you could remove the bumper, then "whap" it against a telephone poll as hard as you can, it would be easier to authenticate.
 
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