My Addiction, Vintage Production Cues

[Biloxi Boy]

Ebay auction for an ebony WHPro ended tonight: $2,225.00. Wonder who the lucky winner is.

 

[L.S. Dennis]

This started with me about 30 years ago. While at work, I noticed several pool cues sticking out of a trash can waiting to get thrown away. Being an avid player with a table at home and where I work, I pulled over and grabbed them. Only one was special, a vintage Brunswick Tru Balance.

From that point I started my collection. A few a year, I would check Ebay and secondhand stores where ever I traveled.
Little by little a few more would get snapped up, antique stores were also checked whenever possible.
I also kept my eyes open for vintage cue racks and built a few myself to display the collection.

I recently picked up a very old 12 cue rack locally. The price was so good I could not pass it up. This cue rack was made by Bott Brothers Billiards out of Columbus Ohio. It was nice to hang it and get another 12 old cues out of the corner of my shop and in a spot where they could be seen better.

My plan is to fill this rack up with Brunswick Professional cues from the 40's through the 60's. There are several different labels used as the years went by and I have about half of them. My hopes are to get the other Blue labels that I don't have currently and replace the Master Strokes in this rack. Although I love the Master Strokes too.

Love seeing all those old Hoppe cues, I still have mine that I bought a lifetime ago!

 

[#1Billiards]

This started with me about 30 years ago. While at work, I noticed several pool cues sticking out of a trash can waiting to get thrown away. Being an avid player with a table at home and where I work, I pulled over and grabbed them. Only one was special, a vintage Brunswick Tru Balance.

From that point I started my collection. A few a year, I would check Ebay and secondhand stores where ever I traveled.
Little by little a few more would get snapped up, antique stores were also checked whenever possible.
I also kept my eyes open for vintage cue racks and built a few myself to display the collection.

I recently picked up a very old 12 cue rack locally. The price was so good I could not pass it up. This cue rack was made by Bott Brothers Billiards out of Columbus Ohio. It was nice to hang it and get another 12 old cues out of the corner of my shop and in a spot where they could be seen better.

My plan is to fill this rack up with Brunswick Professional cues from the 40's through the 60's. There are several different labels used as the years went by and I have about half of them. My hopes are to get the other Blue labels that I don't have currently and replace the Master Strokes in this rack. Although I love the Master Strokes too.

Beautiful Bruns cues!!! i have a few also, just that the labels arent as crisp.

Good on you for taking time to get these and keep 'em alive!

i have an old Bruns dealer rack loaded up - - - - - v

 

[Cuebuddy]

Great eye for vintage collecting.
I came down that road, when they were on the wall in every pool parlor.
I would just pick one, adapt it to my parameters and fire away.
No one suspected a thing!
Had one Roady friend who would just exchange his vintage Hoppe player in any pool parlor, when his became a little more warped from
everyday vehicle storage from day-to-day weather changes. He came in with one and aways left with one!
'You', still have my standing offer to help you step your game to a/the next level, if you ever get into my neighborhood, around upstate South Carolina.
Happy collecting.
Radar

Thanks Radar, I rarely get to that part of the country. I will not forget about the offer to play some and I have a history of meeting many members of this forum.

 

[Cuebuddy]

Ebay auction for an ebony WHPro ended tonight: $2,225.00. Wonder who the lucky winner is.

That's way out of my price point. I pride myself on getting these old cues on the cheap. Only because they really aren't worth that much

Love seeing all those old Hoppe cues, I still have mine that I bought a lifetime ago!

Get Pic of it out here sometime!

Beautiful Bruns cues!!! i have a few also, just that the labels arent as crisp.

Good on you for taking time to get these and keep 'em alive!

i have an old Bruns dealer rack loaded up - - - - - v

Nice collection and rack.

 

[Cuebuddy]

Here is another cue that does not show well in the pictures but is striking in person.
Its a Tru Balance that is Oak into maple. The maple was just about Birdseye but not quite.
It is a cross between Birdseye and quilted maple from the points to the ferrule.