The other post about playing with vintage cues covers a lot about this...
A rough comparison would be someone I know who has an original 1959 Gibson Les Paul guitar, one of THE holy grail guitars of all time, akin to a Balabushka for rarity. He used to gig with it, but it's just too valuable.. he got a re-issue guitar to play out with, and the '59 stays home for recording.. so it gets played.
Pool players know cues... when you rock an inlaid Szamboti, you'll have a lot of attention, some of it dubious.