I bought this cue I believe in '99 or '00 when I started playing three-cushion billiards. I bought it off of one of the house reg players. After I did, another player told me he thought I paid too much for it (I paid $300). About 4 ot 5 of the players there used to go to Vegas for the national championships in July. When they came back, the guy who sold it to me said Schuler had a booth there, and he was selling an identical cue signed for 10k. I believe he said the green in the points was the factor that made it an antique...anyone know anything?