Collection of 180 Mostly Pre-1900 Antique Cues for Sale

4/24/2020 8:10:24 AM

Collection of 180 Mostly Pre-1900 Antique Cues for Sale

It's time to sell our 45 year collection of antique pool cues.

As co-authors of the book "Pool & Billiard Collectibles", we're letting go of 180 collectible cues ranging in age from the mid-1700s to the early 1900s.

ebay.com/itm/254575048994

They're currently listed on eBay under "Pool Billiard Cues 180 Piece Collection" where you can see just a few examples and learn more about them. NOTE: Because of their great age and limited "antique" material content, ALL are 100% legal to purchase and to ship.

Sold privately, outside of eBay, the price is $245,000 USD, including the spectacular antique showcase we display them in.

To see images of the entire collection, should you have serious interest, we can be reached at (319) 331-1949 (or (319) 631-8172) most any time, or you can make an appointment to come see us in eastern Iowa.

Mark & Connie Stellinga
mark@billiard-antiques.com

Source: ebay.com/itm/254575048994

Pool billiard cues 180 piece collection ALL100-400 yrs. old w / Unique Showcase

Seller: billiardcues

Starting Bid: $275,000

Location: Tiffin, IA

This unique collection of 180 very - to extremely - hard-to-find antique cues represents the nucleus of what more than 45 years of intense & relentless seeking, purchasing, and reconditioning of more than 1500 early American and European pool, billiard, and snooker cues has produced. Sorry, we will not break any cue(s) out of this collection for individual sales. We will, however, with an adequate down payment, consider setting up a payment plan under the right contractual circumstances.

PLUS YOU GET YOUR CHOICE OF A PRE-1900 CUE RACK - FROM SEVERAL WE OWN, ALONG WITH THE FABULOUS, VICTORIAN, 1880s, 18 ft. long by 8 ft. tall, OAK SHOWCASE SHOWN - TO DISPLAY THE COLLECTION WITH. Everything fully restored.

IMPORTANT NOTE: ALL OF THESE CUES, with all but a couple example, being more than 100 years old, and, in every instance, bearing FAR less than what is currently legally acceptable in the way of any and all endangered products, are 100% "LEGAL" TO SELL AND TO SHIP IN BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND INTERNATIONALLY.

There are 20+ 1700s - 1800s vintage marquetry examples alone! There is a group of Brunswick's renowned late 1800s model #36s & #360s. There are 8 1700s & 1800s maces, and, for the most part, the entire collection's vintages > run from the early 1700s to the late 1800s!

This is almost certainly the finest collection of authentic "antique" (pre-1900) cues in existence. Again - included is the pictured magnificent, fully enclosed, 18 foot long - 12 SIMULTANEOUSLY, slowly-revolving-rotary-racks, fully lighted, very fancy, 1890s, oak showcase! This unique, custom revamped showcase has a ton of storage as well and a 2 ft.-wide center section that can be used for displaying either smaller collectibles on glass shelves, or, if you > choose, to show off another 24 antique cues.

And we can help you line up a reliable experienced shipper if needed.

(Note: We have not collected the European cues that sport "badges".)

We have gradually sold off close to 1,300 cues over the past 25 years to reduce the collection down to only genuine collectible examples - meaning there are no true duplicates.

Any interested party will obviously need to make specific arrangements to come and take a personal look at what has taken us more than 4 decades to amass.

NOTE: There are also still many very nice odds and ends on our old "billiard-antiques. - - -" site, and we currently (3-29-20) have our last Victorian 9 ft. pool table listed (4 1/2' X 9') - just search for - "Brilliant Novelty Pool Table".

We've also listed a bunch of other great billiard items (as of 3-29-20), including billiard trophies, antique triangles, misc. billiard table nameplates - (left over from our 36 years in the antique billiard table business) - plus many mostly pre-1900, fully restored cue & ball racks.

ALSO -- Be sure to click the "see other items" button -- above and to the right -- to see what all else we're selling in the way of authentic antiques, including several wonderful furniture items (many more coming soon). Again, we can help you to line up a shipper if needed.

FYI - We're Mark & Connie Stellinga -- formerly "Flyin' Lion Antiques", and authors of - "Pool & Billiard Collectibles". We live in Tiffin, Iowa - near Iowa City.