Here's What I Know About the 50th Anniversary GINACUE
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Phil, I believe it's 50 being made but I could be wrong on that.
The price depends on whether you're getting one with the leather wrap or one of the few with a full ivory handle. I don't know for sure whether Ernie has decided on a final price but an educated guess might be just north of $13K for the "basic" anniversary cue.
Lou Figueroa
I believe its 50 regular ones like the one posted above by Chady and 7 special ones. The special ones having ivory handles, snakewood forearms, or some other pricey upgrade.
The 50 regular ones are around 17K each while the 7 special ones are around 25-35K.
Don't quote me on that but I feel like that's exactly what Ernie told me.
I added it up and basically I think he was shooting for a little over a cool million for the batch. Not too shabby!
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if my math is right
ONE MILIION DOLLARS IN CUE SALES ,,
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GOD BLESS ERNIE...:thumbup:
Wow, really? That is a lot of expensive cues! I'm surprised there is a big enough market for cues in that price range, but that is fantastic. Makes me happy to think there is a cue maker out there looking to pull in that kind of money!
Someone in Asia offered to buy the entire batch before he was even halfway done. Ernie turned him down.
Just one. Ernie.
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Well, as long as we're tossing around numbers here, just amongst us girls... I spent some time with Ernie in his shop about a month ago. My purpose was to have him make me another couple of shafts for my 5-point "travel" Gina, made to match my 8-point "Big Gina." He told me, "It'll be a while" and I was like sweating a year-long wait when I asked, "How long?" And he told me "Three months." Whew. That ain't nothin' in cue maker time, especially since Ernie always comes in way before his self-imposed deadline.
After he wrote up my order (and happily took a $500 deposit for the new shafts, ivory JPs, and retipping of the two original shafts) he took me to the back of his shop and showed me his 50th Anniversary cues. He told me the leather wrapped version he was showing me came in a $13,500. Then he pulled out one with the full blown ivory handle. The workmanship was breath-taking. He told me about traveling to Botswana and being in a room filled with tusks and we talked for a while about the ivory trade in general and how he'd bought his 100-year old ivory from a hunter who'd shot an elephant way back when. He told me that for the ivory handled cue I was looking at it would be $35K. I asked if he'd sold them all and/or had a waiting list and he told me no, though he'd made a few with special features at the request of some collectors, he wanted to wait until they were all done.
So we talked about other things, his work, his TAR interview, collectors of his cues. And as I was about to leave I asked him, "Ernie, I'm told you've come up with an ivory substitute that's very hard to tell from the real thing. How do I tell the difference?"
And he told me
Lou Figueroa