Before Google

Before Google, if you wanted to draw a snooker cue you would either have to:

• Draw it from memory and get it wrong.
• Find a real snooker cue (where?).
• Go to the library and hope they had a book about snooker (kids' sections were often the best - lots of pictures).

Which is all very well, but for a minor part of an illustration, would the second two really have been worth it?