anyone know about Murtons Master cues?

[sydlox]

hello,
i recently acquired a Murtons Master cue,
can anyone please tell me anything about the cue?
age?
quality?
anything really?
thank you for your time,
sydlox

[CoolBlue]

hello,
i recently acquired a Murtons Master cue,
can anyone please tell me anything about the cue?
age?
quality?
anything really?
thank you for your time,
sydlox

Pictures 4tw

[sydlox]

hi,
sorry i am new to this!
what does Pictures 4tw mean?
thank you,
sydlox

[jrc750]

I think CoolBlue was saying post up some pictures to help us out
Oh and 4tw means "for the win" - young people talk like this nowadays apparently

[sydlox]

thank you,
i will see if i can work out how to do that!...........

[sydlox]

i dont seem to be able to upload any pictures,
am i being an idiot?

[Quackers]

Read all of this thread matey, it will help
http://www.thesnookerforum.com/board...pload+pictures

[sydlox]

thank you for your help

[Quackers]

No problem. It can be a bit confusing.

[sydlox]

i will try again

lets see if this works?

[100-uper]

The plate looks about 1930 to me (give or take a decade).

Murtons were established in 1894 (Henry A. Murton) and moved to Grainger Street about 1906. They were originally a billiard table manufacturer but developed into quite a big general sports retailer with another outlet in Sunderland. Whether they actually made any of the stuff they sold at this time I'm not sure, but there are certainly a lot of products in the North East with their brand on it – from playing cards to domino sets. They seem to have a lot of billiard tables in the region as well, but in later years they were mainly selling cushions (The Meteor) which they fitted to existing tables of other manufacture.

They were most prolific between the wars and my last reference to them comes in 1939.