I'm having a ball reading through all this stuff, really great. I've been lurking AZB unable to post for some reason for over a year, but finally shot the email out to admin to fix problem.
This part
"I would also print documentation, everything you can find out about it including the stories and everything you learn here. Store a copy with the cue and a copy with your important personal papers. You don't want it to end up in a garage sale for 10 bucks if anything should happen to you."
Ok, so here's the thing... Now that I am putting two and two together with the origin of the stick I believe I have things more figured out, pretty neat.
I'm not kidding you... This whole time I thought this cue was a Meucci, hard to really mentally buy though when it says zimmerman on the handle though, right?. Not being someone who knows all types of things about cue history I got my story all mixed up from when my grandpa gave it to me. Every time I would break it out to show people I would tell them I thought it was an old Meucci. Everyone "in the know" seemed to agree based upon the way the joint is threaded?
The reason I got it all so mixed up?
My grandfather told me that Meucci gave this cue to to him as a birthday present, and that they were friends. He never mentioned that it was probably YEARS before Meucci would even go into business making cues in the first place!! Me.. Knowing Meucci cues, automatically assumed that if Bob Meucci gave you a pool cue it must obviously be made by him. I feel a lot smarter and also a little dumb for the mixup after all these years. LOL.
