The Collections
Will Hunt's cues are infamous collector's items due to his legendary (and unrivalled) reputation. Since 1983 Will has made thousands of cues for Snooker and other Billiard sports. This page is dedicated to collections of Will's cues from around the world.
Here we have 3 excellent examples of Will's cues covering Hunt & O'Byrne and Hunt & Osborne courtesy of Mr Behzad Bilimoria.
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Top Left: A Hunt & O'Byrne Green Plate with an Indian Rosewood Butt.
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Top Middle: A Hunt & O'Byrne Black Plate with a round Ebony Butt, made as a replica of Jimmy White's H&O cue.
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Top Right: The Hunt & Osborne 091 Black Plate cue.
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Middle Left: The collection together.
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Bottom Left: A Hunt & O'Byrne Black Plate Snooker Cue, 1988, purchased 2017 from Will Hunt (London).
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Bottom Middle: A Hunt & O'Byrne Black Plate Snooker Cue, 1988, purchased 2017 from Will Hunt (London).
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Underneath: An impeccable collection of Black Plates.
The great bespoke case maker Moby, whose moniker you may know from our bespoke case range, has put together a trio of Hunt & O'Byrne cues and has designed his very own case to house them in. With 2 red plates and 1 black plate, Moby has a lovely collection of cues.
This selection of cues comes to us courtesy of Mr J Cho who has collected an extensive range of Will's cues from the 1980's and 90's.
Two examples of H&O cues with square nameplates.
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The first is a plain Ebony butt cue, the second has 4 lower splices of Tulipwood.
Here are 4 examples of early H&O cues of various designs.
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Far-Left: 1 front splice of Ebony on a thick undyed Canadian Maple veneer, H&O Black Plate, round butt.
Mid-Left: 4 lower splices of Snake wood H&O Black Plate.
Mid-Right: 4 lower splices of Tulip wood H&O Black Plate
Far-Right: 2 front splices of Ebony with 2 undyed Canadian Maple veneers.
The 3 cues below are from the short-lived 2nd stage of Hunt & O'Byrne which saw Will serialising his cues for the first time. This led him into Will Hunt - London.
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Left: B60, plain Ebony Butt H&O.
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Middle: B68, 1 front splice of Tulip wood with an undyed Canadian Maple veneer.
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Right: B70, plain Ebony Butt H&O.
And finally here are the Will Hunt - London cues from the collection. This is a stunning range of cues in wonderful condition that show off the broad spectrum of designs and high-quality craftsmanship that Will Hunt is famous for.
Here we have a cue from Mr D.L. Nabb's collection, a very rare Hunt & O'Byrne square plate kept in superb condition.
Two lovely Will Hunt - London snooker cues circa 2000 in great condition from the collection of Mr R. Lam.
Here we have a stunning Hunt & O'Byrne cue with 4 long lower splices of Camphor Burl, dates to the early-late 80's and owned by Mr. Z Liang who provided this photo of his lovely cue.
This cue belongs to Mr. E Mok and dates to the mid-late 80's.
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Peculiarly the screw heads are vertical when they were generally horizontal.
Mr C Hilton's two Hunt & O'Byrne cues. The black plate was made between 1984-1985 and the red plate post-1989.
This Hunt & O'Byrne square plate cue, of which only around 50 were made, is owned by Xiao Guodong.
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Xiao is a high-ranking professional snooker player and has kept this cue active yet pristine and we wish him all the best with this cue.
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The cue features a North-American Ash shaft and a West-African Ebony butt which sports a front splice of Snakewood on a thick undyed veneer.