Three Very Interesting Cues

national cue

I used to own this exact cue. ( the sneaky kind) i also used to have a few of the other ones. they are a tiwan cue!!!!! i paid like 40 bucks for them
 
isnt the guy who wrote that accompanying notecard the same guy who there has been numerous threads about in the past especially how he insists he introduced Gus Sz to Balabushka?

chris
 
lncanada9 said:
I used to own this exact cue. ( the sneaky kind) i also used to have a few of the other ones. they are a tiwan cue!!!!! i paid like 40 bucks for them
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The cues were made in Chicago with Meucci and Helmstetter as cue makers. They are not "tiwan" cues.

Look in the Blue Book.
 
The guy selling them is C.Taylor.. nephew to Frank Paradise, the guy who made Gus and George household names. He has all these cues all original unplayed.. bla.. bla.. bla.. bla..

If this is the best he has...:p

JV
 
classiccues said:
The guy selling them is C.Taylor.. nephew to Frank Paradise, the guy who made Gus and George household names. He has all these cues all original unplayed.. bla.. bla.. bla.. bla..

If this is the best he has...:p

JV
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yeha.. i thought it was the same guy..lol..who says he has closets full of rare cues... lol...

chris
 
Jeff said:
These are some interesting cues. Would love to hear some feedback on these.

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmpic99QQhtZ-1
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These Nationals are the imports made in the1970's - they are not from the USA custom operation in Chicago. I believe they were made by Imperial or KPS in Taiwan.

The Rich also is an import. This cue is on page 670 of the blue book. After Rich closed down they sold to Imperial who had a manufacturer in Taiwan make the cues - I think KPS did these too. This particular Rich looks like an Adam forearm.

On those Nationals, when you get these cues in your hands, you can see the bad workmanship. The splices are generally pretty good but the inlays are usually crappy.

Chris
 
TATE said:
These Nationals are the imports made in the1970's - they are not from the USA custom operation in Chicago. I believe they were made by Imperial or KPS in Taiwan.
Chris
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I guess the other guy was right then. I didn't know they had the "National" name on imports.
 
Jeff said:
I guess the other guy was right then. I didn't know they had the "National" name on imports.
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Yes, for many years. Those even could be from the 1980's or 1990's.

I don't know if the original National Chicago cues had any name on them at all. I have one (with a name and dated receipt, 1969) and it doesn't have a name at all on the cue.

I've seen quite a few of these National imports. If you look at the pics of the inlays, Scot's super sharp at filling them in but even then you can see the hand inlay work is terrible.

Chris
 
ChrisOnline said:
isnt the guy who wrote that accompanying notecard the same guy who there has been numerous threads about in the past especially how he insists he introduced Gus Sz to Balabushka?

chris
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Oh, is he that "Cuemuseum" guy?

Chris
 
lol.. you should send that as a question to the guy selling the national cues..lol.. i would like to visit it myself..

chris
 
Bamacues said:
If I wanted to visit "The American Billiards Museum", I wonder where I would go. Is admission free, or is there a charge? What are their hours of operation?
Joe
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??? here maybe ???
 

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??? here maybe ???
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Hey!! That looks like my trailer!! Wait that is my trailer!! WTF!!! When the heck did the they move some museum in there? Man, don't tell me I was evicted again...

Jim
 
Thank you guys, for asking and responding to this post. I just recenctly started collecting cues, and those three caught my eye! I was going to put a call in to a collector today and ask him about those cues, but you guys saved me that trouble. Thanks again!
 
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