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Had the pleasure of hitting a couple of racks with this old stick this past Thursday. Hit's really solid! :thumbup:

It has a 5/16 14 ss joint.

Any thoughts on what it is?

Will be interested in trying to establish an approx value after revealing what it is.

best,
brian kc
 

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Since you purposely left the joint out of your pics, I'll guess Burton Spain..
 
I'm guessing Balabushka.

Doesn't look like a Palmer. Don't recall seeing yellow Micarta ferrules on a Palmer and the wrap on the Titlist Palmers I've owned started right where the purple veneers meet.
 
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Gotta guess Palmer too. I'll go a bit further though. I forget the exact na,especially but Palmer had both a special " silver " edition and a " gold edition " that was the same but gold. This is the special " silver " edition. Both are nice as sheet and VERY RARE! GIVE YOU $300 CASH! RIGHT! NOW! LOL. Nice find
 
Show the joint and the bumper, and I'll tell you.

Buttplate design is more like Balabushka than Palmer, but points are a bit uneven for what George would have put out, though it is a Titlist blank.

Not Paradise. He didn't use many, if any, Delrin buttplates.

The field is pretty limited here.

All the best,
WW
 
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It's a Titlist Palmer....I'll bet $100 it is
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You could easily lose $100.

Palmer standard joint pin was 5/16 X 18, not 5/16 by 14. Also goes for Paradise. Balabushka, for example, standard pin is as stated by the OP. The buttplate design is not typical Palmer. And most of their examples which had real Cortland linen, which this appears to be, was in their first catalog era. In that era, Palmer did not generally use delrin buttplates, or make them quite as long as the one shown. They used implex in that era. Also in that era, they didn't use bumpers. A bit hard to tell, but this one appears to have a bumper of some kind.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything. Custom order of some kind? Sure.

All the best,
WW
 
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Sure looks like the lower-most-left Bushka pictured in the Billiard Encyclopedia.

Not saying it's the same one, but any further bets?

All the best,
WW
 

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The Tascarella letter was the reason why I didn't post this picture as that def would have given away what it was.

Yes, it is a Bushka.

WW, that is an exact likeness you found in the Encyclopedia.

A league buddy of mine was given this cue by his brother who bought is new from George, I believe in the 60's.

The machined rings are very cool, the pics didn't really capture them well. Cuemaker Greg Kucharsky who was looking the cue over with me said these rings would not be very difficult to make as long as you had the right machine...and were very good at setting it up and running it. And he smiled. ;)

The clear acrylic has a crack in it which I'm confident Pete could replace but maybe it's better left alone.

Otherwise, the cue is straght and sound and in very nice original condition and as I stated earlier, it hits really well.

I haven't seen many Bushkas with the clear window in the buttsleeve, don't know if that makes it rarer or more desirable.

Any thoughts on value for this cue?

sorry for the bad qual, esp on this last pic.

best,
brian kc
 

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