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Yo Yo Ma is required by his insurance company to fly his Stradivarius Cello in its own first class seat. Lately on domestic flights I've been using a JB cases travel bag to put my cue case in along with a hoodie or two and that's what I check while I board with a backpack and a carry-on...

Then their bad collectors, with no contacts or connections to the collecting community because they could have gotten that set for half of what they/them paid... This is bad for the hobby and irrational exuberance in valuations is always the high point of a bubble crash...

That set is not worth that much. The biddiders and bidding history on that auction is very suspect.

My preferred approach for international travel with cues is one or two JB 3x6 case/cases inside a Nanuk 985 hardshell.

Go away

I can get the butt engraved with RB's logo which I don't want to do. But my plan is to get a video with Richard holding and talking about the cue when I see him in November. He does not make COA's anymore.

UPDATE: I took the cue to Scott Gilmore for a full refinish and restoration. This morning Richard was in the shop and Scott had him go hands on with the cue and this is what we learned. 1. Richard made the cue. 2. Was made in 75/76 3. Forearm is Gus Szamboti Case Closed.

That is new news, I did not know that.

It looks like they took the interior of a commercial vinyl case and built a leather wrapper around it. The edge tooling looks very similar to two of my Swift cases

Mystery solved!

It was technically the replacement for the Willie Hoppe Professional, so yes any collection should have one! The trick is NOT to pay eBay level prices...

Echoing Chopdoc, it's a Schmelke blank, no matching numbers on joint and shaft, then it was finished by Schmelke in Wisconsin. If it does have matching numbers, then it was finished in Japan by Adam. Either way $150 to $200 dollar cue

Yeah, Dacron would vibe more with the materials Palmer liked to use. But the original poster's cue still looks like linen to me.

Do you know if that was a custom order?

I think the value you were given above is correct. If I were going to buy it, I would not pay more than $300 to $350. The one I have that looks just like yours, I got two years ago for $175 out of an estate sale.

Here is a Palmer like Frank Paradise, that Proficient refinished for me. They were going to give me a 3-part nylon wrap like it originally came with but only had enough material to do one, and something happened, and they had to start over and ran out of material. So it got a speck green linen...

Some second catalog cues did come with a single color nylon wrap, like this: But I have never seen a 2nd catalog cue with an original speck linen wrap like your cue

That is not the original wrap. Original looked like this:

Proficent stopped doing the 3-section nylon wraps as they originally came. They both ran out of the nylon wrap and hated doing them so much they won't reorder new wrap!

I guess I would ask this question... Does wearing a nice, fresh-pressed suit and new tie (Hermes of course) to an interview vs a pair of shorts, a Maui & Sons t-shirt and flip flops give you a mental edge or change your demeanor? I mean, you're the same person in either outfit, right? This is...