That would be sweet!
Please HELP Identify This Cue
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That would be sweet!
I'd say it's a Paradise, based on the windows in the butt plate. GF
Possibly even an early Balabushka fwiw.....
That's cool but how the hell do I get it back to normal size again,lol ???????
Sean
Wouldn't that be sweet? It really I guess could be a one-off anything. I'm still not sure I think I see a window down there. I've seen George's with window, but can't think of one with penalized trim rings at the joint? Where's Tate? I'm for Paradise but ready to be swayed. I'm guessing Rempe is 16 which makes it early 60s.
But OK, let's say that is a window and it says, "Jim Rempe Original by Balabuska" and Denny Glenn doesn't have it (yet LOL).
Kevin
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Kev, check that bumper out, and some early Bushkas had white collars and a brass joint. Ring work in the butt looks more 'his' too. That's my vote, but you know, I may have just slept at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Kev, check that bumper out, and some early Bushkas had white collars and a brass joint. Ring work in the butt looks more 'his' too. That's my vote, but you know, I may have just slept at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Not pearlized but white? Maybe so, probably so. Its so odd, I saw pearalized joint rings and that's all I could see, now that you mentioned white plastic, that's the way I see it, that flat kinda white stuff George used occasionally.
BTW, if that's not a completely posed pic, and Rempe was just about to stroke that ball when he looked up, the camera causght him at the beginning of a slip-stroke so big it would have impressed Cornbread (no easy feat).
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It looks like you can see an r on the end of the word on the buttcap. To me anyway.
It looks like you can see an r on the end of the word on the buttcap. To me anyway.
CTRL + - hehehe
I don't quite see that, but plenty of people that played Rempe saw the end of the world.
Kevin
The Rings, Nylon wrap and Brass joint scream early Palmer to me.:thumbup:
he did tell me at a tournament in lexington, ky that he did indeed still have his meucci crown cue. he may still have this one.
But I'm wrong!
I just got word from Peter Balner that it's a Paradise. His dad was already partners with Frank when the cue was made and Peter was friends with Jimmy by then. He remembers the cue very well in fact.
I was thrown off by the longish buttcap - the black name label and white rings made me think Paradise too but I eliminated it because they almost always have a short buttcap.