This is a first edition Eureka Cue. It has a hand-spliced stripey ebony butt, with four hand-spliced pieces of tulipwood.
The Eureka Cue was one of the best known cues manufactured by Burroughes & Watts. Eureka Cues were produced for a period of almost 35 years, from about 1933 through to 1967, when Burroughes & Watts ceased business.
The Eureka Cue was one of the first cues sold with a metal ferrule already fitted. The Burroughes & Watts trade catalogues proclaimed that the ferrule was "designed to take, without stress, the impact of forcing shots".
