Old Que Identification

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jacobyguy

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this cue has a JP on the forearm and gold/orange pearlesent butt. also a brass joint with number 610 on each half next to the joint. any info would be appreciated thanks.
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I hope this is the appropriate place to ask these questions. i see alot of Q ID in the for sale section and im sure they get more views but im trying to do it right.
 
Looks like an Asian import early 1970's Brunswick. They stamped them with numbers like that.

Not sure what year they started and stopped production, but I am pretty certain I have the era correct in general.

I have no idea what the model might be but I am pretty sure it is a Brunswick import. Probably somebody put the JP there to mark their cue.
 
Adam Japan was the company who stamped numbers like that when they were producing outsourced products for Brunswick in the 70s. I believe it was so the shafts and butts could be matched back up after shipment to the states.
 
are they worth anything? a friend of mine has one with a couple hundred inlays, he's going to be pi$ed when i tell him its japan junk. it'll be fun to get a rise out of him though.
 
The cue in the picture is an Asian import, but not an Adam. It appears that the points on the forearm may be decals.
 
The points look real to me, not decals. The white spots that sort of look like that area of the point is missing looks more to me like the finish has lost adhesion in that spot and has become oblique.

Dick
 
I was given a Brunswick Willie Hoppe some years back that had matching 3 digit number stamped on the shaft and butt. The brass pin was extra short and pointed. It was definitely a Titlist butt. Someone told me that it was made in France then shipped to Brunswick. ???
 
It could be a finish issue. Hard to say from the pics.

Obviously if they are decals and they are peeling it destroys most of the value as a collectible, though it could still be a shooter.

The specific value issue is one that I don't like to touch in general. But let's at least say something since the OP asked a couple times.

It's a pool cue. If it is in decent condition, made well with good materials, ans is not associated with one of the mass producers/importers that people tend to look down on (no, I won't get into that), then there is little reason to think it would be worth less than $100, figure a decent shaft is worth $100. Add a decent looking butt and you should hit $150.

This cue does have some curiosity value at least, the stamped numbers give it that, and the connection to Brunswick give it that. Any eclectic collector would want an example of such a cue I would think. Most would probably prefer to have the Hoppe/Titlist versions and those have been the ones I have seen that seem to sell better on the open market.

It was said a friend has a very fancy one, obviously fancier cues tend to have more value. Hard to say what it might bring.

The one posted here has at minimum some finish issues. A refinish job may or may not actually be as much as the full value of the cue.

Always hard to say what values are. I have been wrong too many times and so I generally don't try to say...and I am no expert anyway....but maybe what I had to say above can help. If anybody feels it's off base feel free to say so.
 
steveinflorida said:
I was given a Brunswick Willie Hoppe some years back that had matching 3 digit number stamped on the shaft and butt. The brass pin was extra short and pointed. It was definitely a Titlist butt. Someone told me that it was made in France then shipped to Brunswick. ???
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Some of the later Brunswicks were made in Canada I think...by companies like Dufferin. I am not sure but I don't think that Brunswicks were imported from France since the late 1800's or very early 1900's.

I could be very wrong on that...but I really thought that only the very early Brunswicks were European made.
 
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