Ebay Unknown "Custom Cue"
- Thread starter PickPocket
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I believe you're correct.cuesblues said:
So Mali then? or RB?
PickPocket said:
The bidding is over $1600. Somebody has a pretty good idea what it is.
the experts in the other half of the forum seem to believe it is an adams balabushka prototype...
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=88467
chris
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=88467
chris
this is a scruggs or JW. I think Scruggs. Definitely not a Mali.
i even remember this cue being sold on ebay a while back with the same case. It is a meucci case.
PickPocket said:Anyone know who this is?
Yes.......
Unknown cue info
If memory serves me correctly that cue made its way throu Downingtown Pennsylvania!!! A great guy named Pete Sinkler who holds a kid tournament their for a number of years used to own that cue as well as almost every famous BUSKA known to man. His billiard collection is unsurpassed. This was over 20 years ago but back then he had them all just about!!!!
it will be fun to see the fighting and bidding on this one!!!! Pete's collection was pretty extensive and when a pool player needed some dough he bought their cues and I am sure this cue has some pedigree if you look through old billiard publications and ask old time hustlers they may even be able to tell you which road agent it belonged too!!
Kid
Dynomite
guycrunch said:
If memory serves me correctly that cue made its way throu Downingtown Pennsylvania!!! A great guy named Pete Sinkler who holds a kid tournament their for a number of years used to own that cue as well as almost every famous BUSKA known to man. His billiard collection is unsurpassed. This was over 20 years ago but back then he had them all just about!!!!
it will be fun to see the fighting and bidding on this one!!!! Pete's collection was pretty extensive and when a pool player needed some dough he bought their cues and I am sure this cue has some pedigree if you look through old billiard publications and ask old time hustlers they may even be able to tell you which road agent it belonged too!!
Kid
Dynomite
ChipD said:Scruggs from 79-82. Here's pics of one of mine from 79-80. Look at the work on the butt. I've owned this cue since 84 and it's been refinished by Tim.
Unfortunately, I can't see your pics in your post, they are showing up in my response as I type, though. I still can't get to them. But, I agree, the butt work does look like Tim's.
Defintely NOT an old Joss West. Billy always used 'stitched' rings back in those days.
Scott Lee
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Scott Lee
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Wouldnt a scruggs be marked though? 
Yes a scruggs would be marked!!!!
Plus the finish is most definitely old on that puppy and you can not replace the butt cap with out a refinish. So, most likely a Bushka. She never showed the little brown bushka bumper on the bottom of his cues and that would just about seal it.
I don't have the funds to pay what this thing may go for but if you must know if authentic then call downingtown PA and speak to pete sinkler and see if he could shed some light on the cue.
He is your best bet on identifing old bushka's and boti's in my humble opinion.
Kid
Dynomite
Plus the finish is most definitely old on that puppy and you can not replace the butt cap with out a refinish. So, most likely a Bushka. She never showed the little brown bushka bumper on the bottom of his cues and that would just about seal it.
I don't have the funds to pay what this thing may go for but if you must know if authentic then call downingtown PA and speak to pete sinkler and see if he could shed some light on the cue.
He is your best bet on identifing old bushka's and boti's in my humble opinion.
Kid
Dynomite