Joss Cue how old? What is it worth?
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You scored, brother. With those big-square joint rings i'm guessing mid 70's(could be older. By '80 or so the joint rings were smaller dashes).. I had a '79 that looked a lot like this one. Worth at least a grand. I'd keep it for sure. Great playing wands.
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Its pre-DiamondSeries. My buddy has a '69 that has these rings(3rd pi down):http://www.billiardsforum.com/pool-cue-value/value-of-a-1968-69-joss-pool-cue. The OP's cue is probably between '72 and '80. Worth way more than $400.
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Send me your PayPal and I'll take it for $400:thumbup:
Yeah right. This is a sharp-point 4pt JOSS from the early-to-mid '70's. You see very few with these joint rings. From 68-72 they looked like these:https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/joss-cue-stick-1968-72-block-letter-66686409(3rd pic) By '80 they were just dashes so this cue most likely was made between 72 and 80. Cue also has the brown bumper which was used prior to about '80.
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I see it now !!!
Nice cue, I had a fancier one (MOP inlays in the points) and sold it for $1200 several years ago. The logo was gone and Dan didnt think it could be redone without damaging the buttcap so he wrote me a LOA for the cue. He confirmed it to be a very early cue, maybe 72ish...
Very good point, mine was an 18 also
I had a ‘71 Joss with three shafts...it was still 18 thread...wish I still had it...
...but a six point Black Boar was too hard to turn down in an even up trade.
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Weren't Bill and Dan still partners then? IIRC Bill left to start JW in '72.
Correct, at least from lots of sources. I believe there are 68-72 cues, 72-?? and so on.
This is what i was going by: http://www.indyq.com/custom/joss_west/Bio JossWest2.html It was great having him here in Tulsa. You could just stop in to get a tip done. Ah, the good 'ol days.
Amen to the good ol days...wish I would have been around then.
Here is the cue I had. I picked it up at the DCC at the executive under the impression it was indeed an old Joss, which after sending it to Dan he confirmed. It was a really cool old cue. When I had it for sale I showed it to a few dealers and one of them took out his jewelers head set and said "I cant give you much because you can see the glue lines in the veneers". A cue maker friend of mine was with me and promplty said you sure can, probably because the cue is almost 40 years old :idea: Long story short the next dealer jumped on it. It was a 57 inch cue if my memory is correct and did have the 18 pin, and the thing was laser straight.
