National Cue

seanandnik

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
A friend of mine has quite a few older cues, nothing super valuable, but some great older cues. Here is one he cant quite remember the deails of, he bought it brand new in the 70s he thinks, $150 he seems to remember. 2 different color woods on the forearm spliced down the middle, a linen or nylon wrap, which he says was covered over like a meucci, but has over the years came off. Leaving the wrap bleached looking in spots, nickle silver joint and rings with plastic type MOP inlays. Shaft needs a new ferrule and he say there was ivory before and he wants to restore it with ivory. Anyone with info on National Cues ?
 

Attachments

  • photo-2.jpg
    photo-2.jpg
    22.5 KB · Views: 676
  • photo-4.jpg
    photo-4.jpg
    101.7 KB · Views: 897
  • photo-3.JPG
    photo-3.JPG
    75.6 KB · Views: 814
  • photo-01.jpg
    photo-01.jpg
    87.3 KB · Views: 836
  • photo-5.jpg
    photo-5.jpg
    98.7 KB · Views: 819
Cool cue. Not two different woods in forearm, though. It's transition from heart wood to sap wood and is natural. Sap wood is the actual living/growing part of the tree and forms the outer layers. Heart wood is the years past worth of growth & make up the core of the tree. Heart wood is almost always darker color than sap wood in every tree, especially noticeable in dark woods like this one. Looks like macassar ebony, BTW.
 
IMHO that this cue has the WICO plastic veneers that are seemless. It's hard to say for sure, but the SS joint collar on the shaft screams National. Better pics would help. (<: Also, could you take a shot of the metal insert into the shaft? If it's aluminum then you most likely have a National Cue.

John
 
Last edited:
Back
Top