Hi All,
Here are a few more Josswest cues currently laying on one of my small coin-operated prohibition-era pool tables. The cues are some of my ebony, ivory, silver, turquoise and mother-of-pearl cues. I also have other groups (with red coral, box cues, etc.).
These pictures were not taken in the best lighting, and I did not take any time to position cues better, etc, but you get the idea. They look good as a group. Several of these have only been at my home since new. I hope you enjoy them. BTW, check out the various ring work designs in these cues. Stroud was a ring work master.
The center cue, a form of box cue, has black lip mother of pearl inlays perfectly and flawlessly set into ivory one-piece "boxes", no glue lines at all, just a perfectly executed cue. Very high on the difficulty scale, particularly when this was made.
The second one from the left with the engraving ring work done by Stroud also has very, very fine silver veneers along all the points.
The second cue from the right is similar in design (not at all in materials) to the Hand of the Masters calendar cue of the mid 1990s.
The fourth cue from the right (with the chrysocolla, ivory and silver diamonds) is the only starburst forearm cue of its kind by Stroud.
(Notice the antique round chalk on the rail of the table from the early 1930s, at the time the table was made in Chicago).
Will Prout
Here are a few more Josswest cues currently laying on one of my small coin-operated prohibition-era pool tables. The cues are some of my ebony, ivory, silver, turquoise and mother-of-pearl cues. I also have other groups (with red coral, box cues, etc.).
These pictures were not taken in the best lighting, and I did not take any time to position cues better, etc, but you get the idea. They look good as a group. Several of these have only been at my home since new. I hope you enjoy them. BTW, check out the various ring work designs in these cues. Stroud was a ring work master.
The center cue, a form of box cue, has black lip mother of pearl inlays perfectly and flawlessly set into ivory one-piece "boxes", no glue lines at all, just a perfectly executed cue. Very high on the difficulty scale, particularly when this was made.
The second one from the left with the engraving ring work done by Stroud also has very, very fine silver veneers along all the points.
The second cue from the right is similar in design (not at all in materials) to the Hand of the Masters calendar cue of the mid 1990s.
The fourth cue from the right (with the chrysocolla, ivory and silver diamonds) is the only starburst forearm cue of its kind by Stroud.
(Notice the antique round chalk on the rail of the table from the early 1930s, at the time the table was made in Chicago).
Will Prout
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