1950's-1960 Hoppe Pro with all original Brunswick Packaging
Includes:
- 2-piece cue
- one (1) shaft
- black mailing tube
- brown paper mailing tube with labels as shown
- two publications originally folded around the cue when mailed.
If you ordered a Hoppe Pro pool cue from Brunswick back in the 1950's, this is what you would get: brown stiff paper packaging with a Brunswick label, black tube with metal cap, butt and shaft in paper wrapper fitted for two pieces, booklet - 'How to re-tip cues correctly', sheet - 'Its Easy to Keep Cues Straight'. Both were folded around the cue, and show as much.
I have never seen all of the above survive intact; in fact, I've never seen the outer stiff paper mailing survive at all, as most owners kept their cues in the black tube or tossed that and got a case. I've only seen the two publications twice, and I have both sets! Despite the 1960's mailing date on the tube's postage I have dated this cue as 1950's for one main reason: the cue itself has a 1950's Hoppe Pro decal. Brunswick's postage machine used a 1940's script for 'Brunswick' and Brunswick never changed the script of 'Brunswick' on their black mailing tubes, even in the 1960's. My assumption is that this cue was sitting in stock for a few years, or they simply used an older decal, which makes sense given that the earlier 1950's HP cues had ivory rings and this one does not.
This cue is in amazing condition - it's probably been played minimally, but it's close to brand new condition; however, the points are not even close to being even. But it's a piece of history.
**SOLD**
Continental U.S. only
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