wow i was never aware that there was a market for custom pool cues.

Oh yeah, Jared...if there is any object man makes, there are other men who consider it to be a collectable...with cues, the market is a variable as it is with Porsches...from rusted out 924's to perfectly maintained 917's...there is the rough equal in the pool cue market. Visit the ebay "sporting goods" catagory, then click billiards, then click cues...I have a "window Palmer", a model M from the 2nd catalog, that I bought back in the early 1970's...it just sat in a closet for a few decades while I was busy running a biz, raising a daughter, etc. Cindy & I decided to start playing again. My cue would draw a crowd...didn't really know why until the hall owners showed me a copy of "The Blue Book of Pool Cues". That cue became a retiree, and I bought the plainer looking Jacoby. Frankly, the Jacoby has a sweeter hit than the Palmer, but the Palmer is considered very rare, since it was the top model of that year, and few bought them. Can't sell it tho...heck, that was the cue I used when Cindy & I were dating. Memories, you know? Thanks to Esther for cluing me to the site, here's a link to 2 early "window" Palmers for sale...both are down on the "fancy" scale from the one I have.
http://www.cueaddicts.com/palmer.htm
What's funny is a friend had to really lean on me to get me to buy the cue...he had made a deal to buy two of them at the then very high price of $125.00 each, and needed me to buy one of them to get the cue he wanted.