The ICCS took place last week from August 27th thru the 29th and was a wonderful event attended by collectors, cuemakers, and casemakers from across the United States as well as some from overseas.
The cues and cases on display were outstanding and to attempt to provide a complete list would be difficult so I will let the pictures, which I will post over the next few days, provide that information.
It was truly interesting to see so many fine examples of cues often only read about and I am not sure whether any historically significant cuemaker was not represented.
Three new cuemakers were admitted: Chris Byrne, Joshua Treadway, and Mike Durbin all of whom had impressive examples of their work on display.
In addition, Sandra Brady made a presentation on the status of the ivory ban and the work being done by The Elephant Protection Organization to disseminate accurate information to the public and state and national legislators.
Thursday night a tournament was held at Felt Billiards and was the only time I had two legendary cuemakers, Richard Black and Ernie Gutierrez, watching from behind and a world champion, Nick Varner, playing on a table next to me.
Please be patient on pictures as I have hundreds from the three days.
The first pics are just a quick sampling and overview. Hopefully, others in attendance will post pictures as well.
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DISCLAIMER:
The pictures I am posting in this thread are personal pictures and do not represent what the International Cue Collectors organization might want posted. These pictures are casual pictures taken with an iPhone at my leisure and I admittedly overlooked taking shots of many fine cues that were present. I apologize for those omissions and they should not reflect on the importance and contributions of those cues, cuemakers, or collections.
The cues and cases on display were outstanding and to attempt to provide a complete list would be difficult so I will let the pictures, which I will post over the next few days, provide that information.
It was truly interesting to see so many fine examples of cues often only read about and I am not sure whether any historically significant cuemaker was not represented.
Three new cuemakers were admitted: Chris Byrne, Joshua Treadway, and Mike Durbin all of whom had impressive examples of their work on display.
In addition, Sandra Brady made a presentation on the status of the ivory ban and the work being done by The Elephant Protection Organization to disseminate accurate information to the public and state and national legislators.
Thursday night a tournament was held at Felt Billiards and was the only time I had two legendary cuemakers, Richard Black and Ernie Gutierrez, watching from behind and a world champion, Nick Varner, playing on a table next to me.
Please be patient on pictures as I have hundreds from the three days.
The first pics are just a quick sampling and overview. Hopefully, others in attendance will post pictures as well.
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DISCLAIMER:
The pictures I am posting in this thread are personal pictures and do not represent what the International Cue Collectors organization might want posted. These pictures are casual pictures taken with an iPhone at my leisure and I admittedly overlooked taking shots of many fine cues that were present. I apologize for those omissions and they should not reflect on the importance and contributions of those cues, cuemakers, or collections.
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