Balabushka owned by Willie Mosconi

hangemhigh said:
Was he selling the inferred provenance instead of letting it stand alone?
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There were a couple of issues... lets just say as a Bushka without all the mumbo jumbo it would still sell. I am not aware of exactly what he has for provenance, but the cue is a great cue.

But at Valley Forge you can't showboat the cue to everyone, stick it with a dealer and expect it to move. What tends to happen is now everyone saw it, had a number, and now there is a new number. It's like taking a cue that has been for sale publicly for a long time. If you can't sell it at your price, what makes you think someone else can?

You also need to take into account the fact the cue was on ebay a slew of times, he contacted numerous people already. After a certain amount of time people will wonder why? It's human nature.

JV
 
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classiccues said:
There were a couple of issues... lets just say as a Bushka without all the mumbo jumbo it would still sell. I am not aware of exactly what he has for provenance, but the cue is a great cue.

But at Valley Forge you can't showboat the cue to everyone, stick it with a dealer and expect it to move. What tends to happen is now everyone saw it, had a number, and now there is a new number. It's like taking a cue that has been for sale publicly for a long time. If you can't sell it at your price, what makes you think someone else can?

You also need to take into account the fact the cue was on ebay a slew of times, he contacted numerous people already. After a certain amount of time people will wonder why? It's human nature.

JV
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Makes me wonder if the 20k bid it got in the first e-bay auction was a shill bid.
 
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