Please help identify cue
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Looks like a cheap decal import cue.
Chinese import. Decal cue, worth 25bux. I'm sure it plays fine but its not worth anything.
Yes this is an asian import cue- most probably the Imperial Billiards company was involved in this cue manufacture- has no value of any significance except to you as a gift from someone. Just so you know, Imperial Billiards was started by a guy - way back from when he got involved in the 1930s in America in everything related to bar related entertainment from pool tables to pin ball machines and he stayed involved with billiards by importing slates for pool tables from Italy since the 1950s. H Betti company bought the Rich Cue company in New York in the 1970s but moved cue production from the USA to Asia and eventually started the Imperial Cue MFG. based on Asian import cues. Your cue looks like some off shoot of an Imperial cue from a lot of aspects.
H Betti's sons and Grandchildren have buit a big business out of bar entertainment "sports" that went more modern with video games and cashed in the pool craze beginning in the mid to late 80s with their Imperial cue lines. I believe they are also now involved with the Cue Tech cue lines and perhaps others as well.
H Betti's sons and Grandchildren have buit a big business out of bar entertainment "sports" that went more modern with video games and cashed in the pool craze beginning in the mid to late 80s with their Imperial cue lines. I believe they are also now involved with the Cue Tech cue lines and perhaps others as well.
There's loads of these low-end import cues. There's no way to tell who made or imported it.
Yes, I know, but a lot of what I see there appears to be from the Imperial cue import family of cues - I am not saying with 100% certainty . Here is an original H Betti cue that I own from when he bought out the Rich Q company in NY- plays amazing- as good as my Scruggs!
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Just a pure guess as to where these Asian imports come from and who did the importing/distrib.
Yes you are very welcome- you can be sure that your cue is an asian import, you can be sure that it has relatively no market value, and we try our best here to give you cue info based on some of us having 25+ years experience in the cue collection and appreciation areas of interest. I am reasonably certain that your cue is part of the Imperial line of cues from Asia- not that it matters in terms of value. If I could see the shaft collar joint area and an inside view of that stainless steel butt joint I could be more certain - but it really does not matter.
I don't know why some of our uneducated posters' questions are met with such hostility when other folks try to answer based on their own education or experience - Mirlok, thanks for reaching out to us - GARczar- stop your BS - this is not about one person trying to show they know more than another on this subject. Your comments about my responses are not helping anyone- showing just a little respect for what someone else may know differently than you goes a long way.
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Biloxi Boy
Man With A Golden Arm
The problem evidently stems from reading and comprehension. Here, the operative word was "probably". When words are not understood, it is usually suggested that a reader resort to a dictionary, or in today's world -- google it.