First Pipe Purchased on Ebay

[wulfheard]

I'm not normally an Ebay fan but I recently started branching out my estate pipe shopping. Normally for estates I stick with Blue Room Briars or Smoking Pipes. But this one caught my eye. It's a Lorenzo, Sigma Eleganza probably from the late 70s or early 80s. It's in excellent restored condition. Almost looks like new. Unfortunately the price was probably in the ball park of what I would have paid for it new, back in the day...

 

[kschatey]

Wow, looks great! Excellent find! I like it a lot myself and makes me think that I should also be browsing eBay more. Even more now that I was just in the process of purchasing an estate Cristiano on smokingpipes.com, but somebody beat me to it while I was checking out!

 

[wordheavy]

That's a very handsome pipe. Looks like you scored.

 

[wulfheard]

Wow, looks great! Excellent find! I like it a lot myself and makes me think that I should also be browsing eBay more. Even more now that I was just in the process of purchasing an estate Cristiano on smokingpipes.com, but somebody beat me to it while I was checking out!

Thanks, I was pleasantly surprised on how clean the pipe was and it seems to be drilled correctly, at least from what I can see by running a pipe cleaner through it.

Tough break on the Cristiano...Estate pipes in good shape move fast on Smokingpipes.com. Some of the nicer ones don't even last more than a few days.

 

[kschatey]

Tough break on the Cristiano...Estate pipes in good shape move fast on Smokingpipes.com. Some of the nicer ones don't even last more than a few days.

A few days? It is apparently more like hours lately. Twice over two days! C'est la Vie... There's always other pipes and I managed to find a really nice estate Savinelli Riviera Rusticated (315 KS) (9mm) that fit my desired chamber dimensions.