David Smith of the Cues n Views web-site talks about the famous Burwat Champion cue

Valuation - lacquer and age

The George Nelson cue

Buying a cue part 3 - Valuation - dimensions and materials

Buying a cue part 2 - In this video I talk about splices, is the cue hand-spliced or machine spliced?

David Smith

We have created the second small video adding a new dimension to the Cues n Views service.

In this video I talk about buying a cue, is it a player or a collector?

Watch for new segments covering a variety of cue collecting related topics.

David Smith

We have created a small pilot video as a new dimension to the Cues n Views service.

This little piece is a short experimental video so that we can learn about the process a little more.

Watch for new segments covering a variety of cue collecting related topics.

I do not expect fan mail but all contributions will get a reply.

Only joking about the fan mail.

David Smith

This is the current Cues n Views collection. well most of it

I have gathered together many cues over the years and would like to share these images with you.

By no means would I claim that this is an encyclopaedia of all the cues made over the past 130 years or a pictorial history of the cue makers art, yet I would say that for variety and interest, you would need to search very wide indeed to match it.

Many of the cues were made by Peradon Limited for other people to sell, either at their retail establishment or as promotional items to be sold by players following an exhibition or as a promotional or presentation item. Some would have been presented to players who played well or even beat the visiting professional or raffled either for charity or to pay the expenses of the visiting cueist.

Please enjoy the gallery and if you like make a comment via email, or indeed feel free to send me a picture of your cue. That’s what this web site is all about, promoting the pleasing and sometimes exciting hobby of English Billiards and Snooker cue collecting.

Thanks to Viv Welsh for some of the photos used in this gallery, reproduced with kind permission.

We are assisting a new collector to put together some of the cues that he is seeking at the moment.

Michael lives close by and has developed a keen interestin Burroughes and Watts.

He would like;

A full length maple Burwat Champion cue
A Burwat Champion in ash
A Burroughes and Watts mascot cue
A Burroughes and Watts Eureka cue
Burroughes and Watts Perfectus cue

we are also seeking cues for another gentleman, he seeks;

A Clark Mc Conachy match cue
A Burroughes and watts Tom Newman cue,
A Walter Lindrum record cue 1929

Slightly for fun and as a guide to new collectors, we have put together a list of the cues that might make up the ideal cue collection. As you know we specialise in the era from 1880 to 1950 so our guide focuses on this era. These cues are in our view the main ones that should be sought out by a serious collector along with any others that you like or that are even more obscure.

In our view, here at cues n Views the essential cue collection should contain at least one each of the following or a search for each of these cues should be started: