This chronology does not claim to be complete but it does intend to give some idea of what occurred during the pre-snooker boom era, right up until the 1960s.
The Ray Reardon, Alex Higgins and John Spencer era is well documented and still survives in the memories of modern observers of the game.
This era also seems to be the era when mass production of cues took over and as there were less first time achievements being made cue badges became to my eye, a little less interesting.
Burroughes and Watts ceased trading around this time and many of the older characters of Billiards and Snooker had retired or passed away.
My own personal cue collection ceases at this time and as far as I am concerned it is revealing that no high quality John Pullman Champion cue seems to exist.
* The Joseph Bennett cue mentioned below is in my personal collection and is the thickest butted cue that I own, it will not fit into a standard case and I believe that it commemorates one of Bennett’s early championship performances.
David Smith
