Requesting Historical Documentation..Willie Hoppes walking cain

Nikrnic

Nikrnic

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Can anyone recommend how to have a piece of history documented as being authentic. I have this cain which I believe belonged to Willie Hoppe. The only history I know is that it was given to my dad in the late 70s from a family friend who found it at an estate sale in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. It is intricately carved in a reptile theme and signed Willie Hoppe 1924. Any help is appreciated.Here are a some pics I just took.
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It is a really nice piece, but I don't think it was owned by Willie Hoppe.
cuesblues said:
Maybe it's a Brunswick Willie Hoppe Pro signature cane
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The signature on the cane and cue are the same, what year did they start to produce the Willie Hoppe Brunswick cue?
 
its a mystery to me. I just wish I could find out the story it holds. If it was his he would have only been 37 yrs old and why would he need a cain at 37, injury? No, I'm not speculating, I have no clue, in fact another thing that seems weird is that it measures 34" long which seems short for a man of his height.

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Id rather want his cue stick

is there a billiard museum?

put all the extra pool stuff in a museum or virtual museum.
 
Willie Hoppe was in famously good shape most of his life. He exercised regularly and did not smoke or drink. Here's a good video of him in his old age:


And from AZB's own forum, a reprint of a 1940s newspaper article describing Hoppe's good health and exercise regimen:

Willie Hoppe - Old Master of the Cue

Old Master of the Cue - Story of Willie Hoppe, a champion again at 52 The first chapter of this story opens some 46 years ago when a stern German father named Hoppe stood his solemn-eyed six-year-old son Willie on a wooden box alongside an...
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I haven't read anything about his using a cane. Perhaps Hoppe knew the maker of the cane, or its original owner, and signed it as a novelty item.
 
That's a thought too. The spot where it's signed looks like a small flat area meant for a signature.

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Was Dianna Hoppe a relative I remember seeing her at billiard events? She had cool billiard swag. Thats something I would want to do have a table at a billiard event one day.
 
measureman said:
The OP said it was a cain.
You think there was an abel model?
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There you go, it's biblical
I bet Moses could have used a cane like that, way better than the cane I've seen him use while wondering around the desert.
After forty years in the desert that cane would come in handy.
 

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Canes, or walking sticks were in style years ago as part of a gentleman’s attire....
...and Willie Hoppe was certainly a gentleman.
I feel this cane is invaluable in the billiard world, whether it was Hoppe’s personal cane or not.
Those canes were not just for the old and feeble...often they were a valuable defence.
 
pt109 said:
Canes, or walking sticks were in style years ago as part of a gentleman’s attire....
...and Willie Hoppe was certainly a gentleman.
I feel this cane is invaluable in the billiard world, whether it was Hoppe’s personal cane or not.
Those canes were not just for the old and feeble...often they were a valuable defence.
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Imagine taking a pool ball attached to the end of a 3' stick to the head. Lights out.
 
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