Could anyone please identify this font for me ? or was is this a customized font.

Do you have any more characters, or an age for the sample? Not that it isn't distinctive enough as it is, but it might help narrow down whether it's hand lettering (which I'm instinctively leaning towards) or a font.

A cousin: Balius, Andreu/CarmenFiesta

@Birdseedling

That is all the characters I found, b/c it was used as a Drop Cap in a layout. Plus I scoured the internet but I couldn't find anything close, and I automatically assumed it was hand lettered as well.

@D Pape

That actually works out. Good find :)

In a similar vein:

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/intellecta/massel/