i need info on a palmer production.

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let me start by first asking that you guys go easy on me, i've played pool all my life but until about a year ago i never bothered with "real" cues and played with house sticks. in the past year i've learned the painful lesson about buying a stick at walmart, and getting ripped off on ebay with cheap imports. the good news is that i also founf this place which helped me avoid a few other mistakes i surely would have made.

now onto my current curiosity. i picked this up off a kid in a beer joint a few months back just because it looks amazing to me, and it feels real good in my hand. it's "playabilty" dosen't really matter right now since i know for a fact i'm more of a problem in that department than the stick is.

from the reading i've done on this site since then i know it's not a custom palmer and it's an imported production, but i've clicked about all the palmer related info links i can find on here and so far i haven't found this particular cue nor the style of "palmer" stamp on the butt so i can pin down when or where it was made or what it was or might be worth.

so without further ado, onto the crappy cellphone pics...
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Yup, Chinese import. Not very old one either.

They made a lot of different ones so nailing down a model etc is difficult and not really worth the time.

Value would not be a lot. Less than 100 bucks? Maybe 100 to a person that really wants it badly? But you can get a new one for substantially less I would think so....that would be paying too much.

It's actually a Palmer in name only and as far as I know has no relation, business or otherwise, to the old Palmers we know that were made by and later imported by Eugene Balner and his family (he died in 71 I think). That company went out of business in 1994. The Palmers we see now on the market are in no way related.


http://www.palmercollector.com/palmerhistory.html


You can buy cues of similar quality to that quite regularly on Ebay, there are many styles available. Typically well under $100, even often with two shafts.

Virtually nothing you find in "Palmer related information links" has anything to do with the cue pictured except as a sort of footnote.


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well i picked it up for 75$ so i guess i didn't get hosed too badly. i love the cue so i'm not looking to flip it for a profit or anything, i just didn't want to risk an expensive cue in the types of places i play where it might have to be used as a club. that's why i always played with house sticks until recently.

thanks for the confirmation guys.
 
If you like it and it's in good shape I would think the deal was just fine, you didn't get hosed.






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I've owned 2 or 3 of the ones that sell on ebay. They are decent for the money. In fact, people that tried them, bought them off me and I don't have any of them now.
 
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