| This cue was custom made to my specifications by in 1981. It is a basic Szamboti design with four ebony points lined with blue, red, white and green veneers going into a birds eye maple nose. The butt sleeve is solid ebony with a white delrin butt cap. It has a piloted stainless steel joint accentuated with nickel rings. Both shafts are original to the cue and have ivory ferrules. The cue was reconditioned in 2003 by Jim Buss.
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This stick is a prime example of the ever-inflating value of good cues, and a great argument for investing in this market. The story on this particular cue also makes a good anecdote. I originally paid Gus $385.00 for this cue, but foolishly sold it to buy a Tim Scruggs cue that was more attractive to me at the time. I still have the Scruggs cue, and it gave me many good years of play, but it didn't grow in value like the Szamboti.
Fortunately, I kept track of the Szamboti through the years, and although it had two more owners along the way, it never left my home town. More than twenty years later I had the chance to repurchase the cue, but at a greatly increased price.
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| I have to especially thank Terry Huelsman, owner of "The Break" in Cahokia, Illinois, for selling this cue back to me and allowing it to come back home.
I have this rare cue appropriately matched with a beautiful vintage Fellini case in a chocolate-brown elephant hide leather.
THIS CUE IS NOT FOR SALE.
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