P. Special old billiard cues.
Here are four examples which do not belong to the collection.
1. A '2-tip' Hiolle cue. Its butt end is also provided with a ferrule and a leather tip and it can slide on the cloth at two different heights (see Technology Dictionary or New Universal Dictionary, Volume 18, 1831, p. 69. Thomine Bookstore, Paris, France), according to the player’s choice. So this cue can be used as an improved mace, too.
2. A 'compressed air' cue propelling its tip against a ball without having to be moved, designed around 1925 (see The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards by Michaël SHAMOS, Ed. Lyons & Burford, New York, United States, 1993, p. 70).
3. A yielding cue created by Jean BRAUERS around 1926.
Jean Brauwers was a Dutch maker and inventor
of billiard cues, resident of Brussels in the early
1900s. He created especially a yielding cue
(see the advertisement on the left, published
in the Belgian newspaper 'Le Billard - Organe
officiel de la Fédération belge des amateurs de
billard', No. 1 of January 1926, p.16).
Two parts of it are united to each other after the
insertion of a disk made of yielding material
(for more details, see Jean Brauers Billiard-cue
US Patent No. 664,528 dated December 25, 1900).
This cue was sold in Brussels by its creator and
by Hénin Aîné, under the name of Régulatrice
Brevetée S.G.D.G., in France.
(see pages 4 and 7 of a small catalogue published by Hénin Aîné in the early 1900s)..
4. A cue with a hidden spring which can be compressed and then relaxed to propel a ball, made by SEMAL, a Belgian inventor, around 1934 (voir Le billard et l'histoire. Chronique des temps passés par Georges TROFFAES, Ed. Laguide, Paris, France, 1974, p. 111).
