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What should I be looking for?
If I x-ray a Balabushka.
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Straight threaded rod at the A joint.
George got most of his parts from the hardware store,which was the norm for that time period.
George got most of his parts from the hardware store,which was the norm for that time period.
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My dentist is going to do it for me. I have the letter from Pete.T. I'm going to sell one this year, maybe both. I think the x-ray would add to the whole package. When I sold my 65 Mustang, (really 64 1/2) I had the original showroom window stickers and I think it got me more money.
This is what Verl Horn did before he made his Bushka copies. His were almost impossible to tell the difference in the two. This cat brought one to a tournament and all the cue 'experts' there though it was the real deal. Another cue i shoulda bought.
So you want clone not real deal? Yes you cry about the off shore people who make counterfits.
Your values are showing who you are.
What are the lengths of your cues? Either of them longer than normal by chance?
It will not, but ok
never seen a cue for sale with a x-ray to go with it. i agree, doesn't add/detract any to the price.
The letter from Pete is the value, adding an x-ray might actually take away from the value because various experts and "experts" will argue that the bolt is off by half a thread pitch or a quarter of an inch in length, the letter settles the matter. Anything else will just introduce argument
Good point. Those VH 'bushka copies were awesome cues. Verl was clear that they were copies but some that bought them to re-sell weren't so up front. I've heard stories that Pete said they were as close to the real deal as he'd seen.
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One is 57 and the other is 56.5. The 57 is a titlest butt and Pete said it is probably one of the earliest cues Balabushka built. The other is a Spain blank. The Spain has no original shafts.
I am not delusional about the values. But having said that I certainly would like the best I can get.
I am old and have no kids and don't need money.
I want them to be preserved as a part of the sports history I have spent the better part of my life playing.
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Good point.
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That is why I asked. You are right, I may do it for my own curiosity but keep it to my self.
PM me, I'd love to see your cues and I can tell you what I have sold very similar cues for in the last year
Can you just imagine that? If there is a "Phrase of The Year Award," you're a stone lock.
Thank you for your consideration
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I will do that. It may not be today I have to get them out. The pictures I have are on an older phone I need to take new ones.
If you have the Billiard encyclopedia, ( I am sure you do) there is a picture just like the older one on page 323. It is the second from the left in the picture at the top of the page.
I do not, but I don't mind waiting for your photos. I have sold 8 or 9 in the last 12 months and I am confident that I got the maximum out of each, they are very cool cues and the first ever real "players" cue, marrying form and function, using Spain blanks
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My wife bought a painting on her own opinion that a so-called expert said was not by the artist. It is genuine and at auction would bring a thousand times or more what she paid.
We were actually able to track the painting back to the original owner a doctor who was treating the french artist for multiple-arthritis. He had come to the US for treatment. The painting was probably a gift. That may have accounted for why the painting was a little different from his other works, he was sick.
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Can Joe of Classic Cues chime in on the validity of the top part of this statement.
I am under a little different understanding of the type of screw most often used.
But I have very often been wrong in my opinions. Just ask my wife.