The greatest collection of famous cues

The Eddie "Knoxville Bear" Kelly cue is actually in the ownership of Alfie Taylor, here in Tucson. When I visited Alfie's shop, he let me hold it, pretty nice cue.
Alfie may have mentioned this is his book, not sure.
 
franko said:
That is a really great idea I would love to own something like that.
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I think the book Billiard Encyclopedia by Paul Rubino and Victor Stein is full of the Glenns billiard cues.
Not the complete hoard, but quite a few of the best.
 
There are several people that own one of his cues
Several own cues that Eddie Taylor was reputed to play with


Itwas never my intention to say Dennis had every cue,but his family has
spent a lifetime trying to collect historic cues,famous cues,cues closely associated
with the players who actually signed these cue along with stories in their own hand writing

I was with Denny when he paid UJ Puckett for his hat,he obtained a long story from UJ and let him keep the hat till the end.
Did Dennis actually get the hat? I don't know

I saw him make deals with Fats only to find persons who knew better renig


I have seen him help Ronnie Allen get through hard times at the last

I have seen him get South West cues to make shafts for Efren and a bunch of other things

i don't expect you guys to put a value on these things,it is hard to do.+
 
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tucson9ball said:
The Eddie "Knoxville Bear" Kelly cue is actually in the ownership of Alfie Taylor, here in Tucson. When I visited Alfie's shop, he let me hold it, pretty nice cue.
Alfie may have mentioned this is his book, not sure.
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Kulungian has Eddie Taylor's (the Knoxville Bear) Paradise diamond king.
 
What does it take to do a museum? There should be enough of us to gofundme a nice place in perpetuity. Those who make it happen become the Board and collectively own the cues that could never be sold but always be viewed. An irrevocable Trust. The Glenn's get paid and realize their dream. Every year at the annual Board meeting you get the opportunity to steer whitey with one of the collection.


Fatboy could donate his Las Vegas pad and add his collection to the Glenn's. Huge write-off and perfect location.


BONUS- Lucky ain't getting any younger either, he needs to bring his stash to the dance too.

I can't name all of you, but members here hold many important cues as well and should consider joining the first cue museum.
 
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deanoc said:
i MEANT TO SAY eDDIE tAYLOR,THE KNOXVILLE BEAR

AFIE MAY HAVE ONE OF eDDIES CUES BUT dENNIS HAS SEVERAL OF THE IMPORTANT CUES

EDDIE KELLY IS IN LAS VEGAS WITH HEALTH ISSUES

READ BETWEEN THE LINES
MY CLOSE FRIEND DENNIS GLENN IS AGING,HIS DREAM THOUGH TERRIFIC ,BOOKS,PICTURES,CALENDER'S
,AN ACTUAL HALL OF FAME FOR CUES TABLES MEMORIES OF PLAYERS AND DAYS GONE BY MAY BE SLIPPING AWAY

NO ONE THAT I CAN THINK OF HAS DONE MORE FOR OLDER PLAYERS
AGING PLAYERS AND FAMILIES THAN DENNIS

IF I HAD THE DESIRE VISION AND MONEY I MIGHT TRY TO CONTACT DENNY

$ 5,000,000 APPRAISAL WOULD BE LOW

SOME OF THESE CUES ARE WORTH OVER $100,000 EACH
I OFFERED HIM $20,00 EACH FOR OVER TEN

HE DECLINED

NOT TO EVERYONE,BUT LESSER CUES HAVE BROUGHT THIS MONEY

WITH OVER 100 EACH OF
MAJOR GUS AND BALABUSHKA CUES,GINA,BRUNSWICK AN

WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE

IT DISAPPOINTS ME TO SEE PUNDITS KNOCKING A THREAD DEALING WITH ONE OF THE GREATEST SUPPORTERS POOL EVER HAD

I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WITH VISION MIGHT BE HELPFUL

I AM HOPING DENNIS LIVES TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT HIMSELF
HE IS NOT NOW OR EVER HAS ASKED FOR A HANDOUT
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Knocking?

Seems most people are excited and inspired at the notion of the project in various aspects.

Personally, I don't have $5 million. Most here don't. I would be happy to help. I would love to know how. I wouldn't know where to start.

You were not very clear in what you originally posted anyway.
 
Chopdoc said:
Knocking?

Seems most people are excited and inspired at the notion of the project in various aspects.

Personally, I don't have $5 million. Most here don't. I would be happy to help. I would love to know how. I wouldn't know where to start.

You were not very clear in what you originally posted anyway.
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They need to call Joe Rogan, he"ll buy them and let Earl pick one out and send it to Spaulding for a new wrap. A multi million dollar cue collection is all but a pipe dream to sell these days. The mass quantities of cues, lack of interest and money, younger generation not knowing what nice collectable cues are...etc is the downside. A cue / billiard history museum would be really cool for those who still enjoy the past time. Why dont the Glenns donate the collection to someone, cut out the $5M nut and that leaves a mountain to put towards a permanent venue to display their life long work. Call it the Glenn museum, only makes sense if Schmidts cue should be donated to them...

If they'll donate the cues to a museum ill donate pictures of almost all the aforementioned players holding said cues, and some that werent mentioned and all signed by them. These are one of a kind pictures, some of which have a personal note written to the late great Mizzy Miz.
 
Yeah, the Glenns IMO have never sold cues... I don't think a pool
museum woud fly.. I love the idea, but I just don't think it could
stay solvent in today's world, what with real estate and all.

Now a coffee table book on the Glenn Collection.. that'd be the nuts.

Rogan? I don't think he has 5 million... you'd have to go to a Buffet or
a tech giant ( Paul Allen rip) for that kind of scratch.
 
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A cue museum woul be a real winner, if it could only be attached to an ice scare museum.

Jesus, people. Have some perspective...we are the only ones who care about pool and all things pool sound pretty good TO US.
 
A stand alone museum isn't feasible.. just way too much operating costs..
and yeah, most non-pool people wouldn't be psyched to see a bunch of cues.

Now, if you had a side room at, say, the Smithsonian.. and not just the Glenn
collection, but historic photos and memorabilia, records and such, that might
be cool. I still think a proper book on the Glenn collection would be the nuts.
 
Even if the low end total is $3,000,000 which is probably close, most big collectors wouldn't be interested in all of them.
To sell that collection it would have to be broken up.
Many collectors could afford all 800 cues, what are you going to do with them.
Just too many cues for one guy.
As far as a billiards museum it would have to be part of a big pool room, maybe a sports or art museum of some kind, because I don't think cues are mainstream enough to fund a dedicated museum.
 
It's worthless and I apologize for being so blunt. I am considered the younger generation and I would be interested in a museum where people can go and enjoy but the fact of the matter is it won't be sustainable and they would be operating at a loss.

The best thing to do is break up the collection and hope some big fish can take care of these cues. That's just a lot of cues and sadly this game and industry is on the decline except for bar table leagues in which the participants, from my observation, could care less.

Man I would love to see what kind of collection this family has.
 
Everyone get ready to start blasting me with red rep.
While I love pool and history I completely fail to see where the monetary value is in a collection like this. A person really has to bleed pool to find much extra value in a piece of wood dowel with a small piece of pigs butt glued to it used to push a white ball across a felt covered table that won a tournament by a "famous" person. When someone has a single collection this enormous I think it compounds the problem because so many of these potentially valuable cues are out of circulation so they are not traded and cannot set market value. Add to it the fact that unless you are a loyal user of these forums pool and its characters are just not on the radar of normal everyday life. Im sure that I could walk into a local pool tournament with a Szamboti, Searing, or any other equally impressive cue and most of the players might just as well think its a Predator or a Players model. Unfortunately I believe this wonderful sounding collection is destined to spend its eternity out of the public eye in hearsay and imagination unless it is donated or virtually given away.
 
i can hardly understand the thinking
one person does already own the collection
why would it spend it's life in obscurity unless it is sold cheap or given away

why would it bless more people if the collection was broken in pieces and given to people that could not afford it?

what doesn't make sense is any of these statements

the same could almost be said about any large collection of art


i fear that sharing something here was a mistake
on my part

i know dennis has a vision ,he has picked up so much pool stuff that it boggles the mind

i confess that i have not been able to grasp the totality of what he wants to do

i do know there are thousands of people with more money than this
invested in baseball cards,if a Mickey mantle topps rookis card is worth $100,000
is it beyond the realm of possibility that Moscoi's cue is worth more.?
Several cues have sold for more
 
The entire collection should be cataloged, documented, and professionally photographed and sold as a high-dollar "coffee table" book.

If there is EVER a "pool museum", 99% of the pool players in the world will NEVER know of it, much less visit it.

I don't think a "pool museum" could ever stand on its own. There, SIMPLY, isn't enough people interested to keep it going.

It would take a "good Samaritan", with TONS of bucks, to set up a museum and absorb the costs, in a losing proposition.

I can walk into the pool hall any day of the week and 99% of the players don't have a clue about pool history, short of maybe hearing of Minnesota Fats, Jeanette Lee, or SVB. There is no way they would be knowledgeable of any players of decades long ago.

You can show the majority of them a $10,000 cue by the best cue maker in the world and they are more impressed with a BK3. They are clueless and choose to remain that way.

I would visit a "pool museum" in a minute if I was near one, but I'd never plan my travels or vacations around one.
 
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The model that should be followed is the way Windham displayed his collection in his Chattanooga Billiards Club. No one is interested in who used the cues as much as they are interested in who made them. The draw is Rambos, Martins, Balabushkas, Szambotis, Paradise, and a few others like Tad and Southwest, Kersenbrock, and Palmers. Rare cues that are things of beauty regardless of who's hands they were in at the time.
 
deanoc said:
i can hardly understand the thinking
one person does already own the collection
why would it spend it's life in obscurity unless it is sold cheap or given away

why would it bless more people if the collection was broken in pieces and given to people that could not afford it?

what doesn't make sense is any of these statements

the same could almost be said about any large collection of art


i fear that sharing something here was a mistake
on my part

i know dennis has a vision ,he has picked up so much pool stuff that it boggles the mind

i confess that i have not been able to grasp the totality of what he wants to do

i do know there are thousands of people with more money than this
invested in baseball cards,if a Mickey mantle topps rookis card is worth $100,000
is it beyond the realm of possibility that Moscoi's cue is worth more.?
Several cues have sold for more
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But how many people have heard of Mickey Mantle vs Willie Mosconi??? Baseball is "Americas sport" or so they say. It is hard to find less of a baseball fan than I yet I can see the value of a Mickey Mantle baseball card. Professional pool is obscure, I dont know the word to use for professional pool players as far as popularity other than extremely obscure. Im sorry Dean, Im not trying to step on your toes or anything its just kind of sad something like that collection will probably never be seen by many or even known about.
 
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