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And of course original business cards and wood veneers from the Tascarella/Bushka wood stock. ...  

but clearly this man was a great artist. To be respected and admired by the top people in the sport is worth more than anything else. Thanks for the post!

I think more than anything else, there is a mystique about Balabushka that no other cue maker has. Stradivarius obviously has this same mystique where what exactly did he do to make his violins so different from other master craftsman, this may remain sci... 

. . . in prison. The second greatest mystery of the Universe is, where are those Balabushkas now and who owns them? 🤔

Well the unfortunate fact is that there maybe many Balabushka that have gone unrecognized and ended up buried in land fills. Without family knowledge of these great cues and documentation of the importance to the game, they just get forgotten.

The lower left card was from 1980s. Junior is on the card so not the first generation card. Balabushka cards are genuine. ...