So a few years back, in the early 2000s my local shop had these little miniature meerschaum pipes for about $5 or so. They had cheap plastic stems like the corn cob pipes you see today. They were nothing fancy although surprisingly they did have machine carved designs. I have long since lost mine and was wondering if anything like this exists today? All I see online are fancy expensive meerschaums. I was just curious to try the material again before committing any big bucks for a quality piece. I was a rookie back then at pipe smoking, though I still am now I definitely know a bit more and wanted see how meerschaum compares to my briar and corn cob.