Please ID this cue, possible Palmer or Paradise?

[randyg]

Paradise almost always had multiple colors in his plastic work. Usually a shade of red or blue and white. I don't know what happened to all his old cues, maybe they all fell apart. I remember Frank well. He was a slick looking older man, trim and neatly groomed with a pencil mustache. Always wore a suit too. He drove an old Mercedes, the model with the fins. He was the first cue maker I ever met. His cues were expensive for the 60's, in the $75 price range.

Funny what things stick with you after all these year.

Jay

I collected Paradise cues for 40 years, along with Palmer Cues. I ended up selling 30 Paradise Cues and keeping just two out of the collection for myself.

Most all of those Paradise Cues were in great shape after all that time.

I can tell many stories about Frank Thomas.
randyg

 

[fan-tum]

Blue Books of cues are great, but what I'd love is collection of...

..every brochure ever made, from high price to low price, in book form. The public would be crucial to this project, lending their obscure and rare brochures. I concede,"why bother, since we already have the BBoC's": nevertheless that's what I'd love.