Does anyone recognize this logo?

Steve was in a business partnership for quite a while with a fellow named Miller (I believe that was his name.) His partner also marketed a line of cues under the name of "Cobra". And they had a complete line of cues that they sold with Steve's signature on them. They had cues that sold for anywhere from around a $100.00 up to about $600.00. Some of them were really very good quality cues. Steve and his partner split up and liquidated the business several years before his death. Steve was a business man and sold his signature for a price to most anyonr who was willing to pay enough for it and I am sure that were some cues sold by Sears with his name on them but I do not believe any of the dove cues were sold by sears. But I could be wrong.
 
tsp&b said:
Steve was in a business partnership for quite a while with a fellow named Miller (I believe that was his name.) His partner also marketed a line of cues under the name of "Cobra". And they had a complete line of cues that they sold with Steve's signature on them. They had cues that sold for anywhere from around a $100.00 up to about $600.00. Some of them were really very good quality cues. Steve and his partner split up and liquidated the business several years before his death. Steve was a business man and sold his signature for a price to most anyonr who was willing to pay enough for it and I am sure that were some cues sold by Sears with his name on them but I do not believe any of the dove cues were sold by sears. But I could be wrong.
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Not sure about sears, but I remember the Kmart store that use to be here sold them with Steve's name on them, and at least some of them did had the dove logo. The 2 stores are affiliated now days, but not sure if they were that long ago or not. They were priced under 30 bucks if I remember correctly, and price depended on the model. The Cobra's seemed to be just a little better quality, and came later I believe. I have one that My dad bought many years ago that has real inlay points in It, but He bought that one out of a display in a billiard room..
 
The Mizerak "dove" cues that Steve and Harold Miller sold were made by the same manufacture and they were higher quality that the Cobra Line. That is JMHO but I sold a ton of both lines.
 
I won't argue which is better quality, as to me they really were fairly similar, and even played alike to me, but The cobra did seem like a nicer cue to me, but It was a nicer looking cue, so maybe that's part of My basis for saying it seemed like a little better quality. It also cost a lot more though. I will say though that I owned 2 of the dove cues back in the day and the 1 cobra. The cobra was the only one that survived to this day in one piece. That's not to say that the dove cues weren't put through more then the Cobra was though. I remember the steel joint came loose and later the forearm split on one of the dove cues, so I could see the internal construction methods, and It was pretty much the same as most 2 or 3 piece handles are made with a threaded connector bolt at the "A" joint. They were definitely made better then most of the cues that the average department stores carried back then. They were the perfect type of cues for an entry level player as the prices were very affordable for the type of construction and materials that were used to make them. Today I can't buy the materials that I use to build a cue for the price that those complete cues sold for back then. I have many other make cues that I used at one time or another, although I only play with cues that I made now, so I no longer use any of the others. I do still have the cobra, It's still all original, even has the original green wrap. My dad used It back in the day, I used It some as a bar cue, and It was a loaner cue for friends at times, so It took a fair amount of abuse and other then a few dents is still intact.
 
Harold Miller never had a Cobra cue that had a suggested retail price for $600.00, but he did have a Mizerak that did.
 
He use to work for Adam, before starting the cobra line. I think $300-$350 was the highest retail on the Cobras, and they started at around $40-$45. They were made in Taiwan from what I know of. I was under the assumption that the dove cues were too. I have never seen the $600 version. The only ones I saw back then were at Kmart, so they didn't have any for that much, and I never saw one over 50 bucks there. I'm sure there were more expensive models then what they had though.
 
Here is a copy of the catalog page for the Professional Series from 1992. The 1992 suggested Retail prices are as follows, SM-1 = $272.00, SM-2 = $330.00, SM-3 = $400.00, SM-4 = $420.00, SM-5 = $460.00, SM-6 = $520.00, SM-7 =$599.00. They each came with 2 shafts, joint protectors, and a black velvet "Presentation" case.

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Those look a lot nicer then the models they had in the store. 1992 was just before I started dealing with wholesalers, and selling cues, so I have never seen that catalog. Thanks for posting.
 
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