I travel with a two piece bar cue placed in a case in my checked bag- it works just fine. The popularity and price of these 5 piece Crest cues just has me stumped. I remember them as $15 cast offs in years past.
Crest 5 piece pool cues
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I travel with a two piece bar cue placed in a case in my checked bag- it works just fine. The popularity and price of these 5 piece Crest cues just has me stumped. I remember them as $15 cast offs in years past.
I have always believed that these cues sell to non-players. They were bought as a gift to a friend or family member who plays.
The non-playing buyer thinks that the cue must be special because they have so many pieces and come in a wooden box.
I would not think the cue would play good at all. Kind of like the walking cane with a cue shaft in the handle, cool novelty but that's about it.
Your premise amy be correct, but I see multiple folks bidding up these cues past the $100 mark; if you are correct, and perhaps you are, seems like a very big waste of $$ for the highest bidders on these cues- I often wondered if there was something else going on here ( like perhaps they can be carried on a plane for those who just refuse to check bags or pay baggage fees) and feel that this is a better alternative to house cues. Otherwise, just as a playing cue, seems like some folks are so clueless that they would spend over $100 on this?
I'm not sure but I bet the TSA does not have a stipulation of length of a pool cue that must be checked. Probably just states that "pool cues" can not be carried on.
I remember these as far back as fifty years ago and the case was ratty and falling apart on one then, I would guess these things date to late fifties, early sixties, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot older than that. Saw several of them and thought they were kind of cool. Of course I was easily impressed back then. Tried to get in action with one of the guys to hopefully end up with his cue. I remember inserts coming out and such though, I wouldn't have won much.
I had one of the walking canes as a teenager, seemed a slight cut above others and it was the only long one I have ever seen, the shaft was 32" or longer. I had a home table, junk too, but with a lot of practice that old Sears and Roebuck table and no name cue helped me a lot. I do believe hitting balls beats not hitting them. Also, a cue you know will often outperform one you don't.
I might like to have a walking cane cue or the four or five piece one. I wouldn't go above twenty bucks for either in good shape though so I am likely to never have them!
I am really thinking I want a three piece with each piece 22" plus the bumper.
Hu
I had one of the walking canes as a teenager, seemed a slight cut above others and it was the only long one I have ever seen, the shaft was 32" or longer. I had a home table, junk too, but with a lot of practice that old Sears and Roebuck table and no name cue helped me a lot. I do believe hitting balls beats not hitting them. Also, a cue you know will often outperform one you don't.
I might like to have a walking cane cue or the four or five piece one. I wouldn't go above twenty bucks for either in good shape though so I am likely to never have them!
I am really thinking I want a three piece with each piece 22" plus the bumper.
Hu
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I bought a cane cue in an antique store in Lincoln Nebraska for $14 many years ago. I chucked it up and restored it. The cue was complete, with the rubber bumper inside the round brass cane handle. I put a good tip on it and the darn thing is straight. The brass and rubber bumper adds a little weight to the rear of the cue which makes up for the handle area being hollow.
It would certainly work fine for a hustling cue.
This is true. I’ve had my 3 piece go thru X-ray three or four times. Once they made me check it. I guess they could have confiscated it.
First cue I bought at Airport Billiards in St Louis when I resumed playing after a 35 year layoff was a Crest. I didn't realize it had a screw on tip until I was breaking with it one they and the ferrule shattered into dozens of pieces and all that was left was the threaded tip. I think I still have it somewhere in my basement. It also has decals - not inlays.
Paid $50 dollars for it. It came down to the Crest or a Minnesota Fats cue and I liked the decals better on the Crest.
I've got one right here, its a monster and shoots lights out...
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Judging by the for sale items forum those two attributes are worth minimum $1,500. If it has Bushka decals that's another $500.
My guess then is, as someone mentioned, clueless folks are throwing away $$ on a fairly worthless and useless cue that won't make it past the airport Xray machine for carry on bags and even if it did- not much help at the billiard parlor 
No knowing what they are. List anything as "Rare Vintage Collectible" and people think they are buying the Holy Grail. Someone that knows nothing told someone else that knows nothing "old cues are worth a lot".
I see cheap new Palmers listed as rare vintage cues and being listed at $500.
Yes, I saw a cheap Palmer sell for over $150 yesterday- I think he originally listed it at $500 and I sent him a note and he changed it to a straight auction- folks will buy anything I guess.
I stopped sending notes to people suggesting what they had was not what they think they have, they tend to reply with rudeness and name calling LOL