Yes Doc it does say Adam on the butt plate.
Not Adams.
Years ago there were people on this site pronouncing my Lucasi as POS.
Not much of that anymore.
The best Adam cues were full-splice.
The shaft pictured is very low grade .
I'm actually surprised Adam even used that shaft .
$100 might be a good guess for that cue's value.
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Not to be picky but it's Adam, not Adams. Common mistake. And it is cue...not que. :wink: http://grammarist.com/usage/cue-queue/
Anyway, a plain Adam like that ( I suspect it is plain) is worth something as a player to those who like them.
Condition is everything.
In nice shape, probably worth around 100...maybe more, maybe less.
Old fancy Adam cues can draw significantly more an can be quite collectible.
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I would agree. Nifty cue although I would agree value wise. It's gonna be a solid player for someone who enjoys them or throw a phenolic tip / ferrule on it and it would make a great little breaker.
BTW, we often still spell it queue in German, I would assume from the French origins. My father would have probably told me that I was wrong and that I should give up my citizenship for saying that since apparently everything was invented in Germany (according to him.)
Adam even made Ramin cues...low end decal cues with really poor maple shafts...and more.
This isn't even their worst.
Yes, they made very good cues. But among makers the spectrum of quality of Adam was among the widest range since their early days. It isn't something they his. They really just were serving a wide range of price points.
Yeah...a lot of grain runoff on that shaft.