Pipe Life Expectancy, New And Estate

[bnichols23]

God knows, Tom. My current oldest is a 30s-40s Comoy Sunrise, cleaned but never restored as such.
Bill

 

[mso489]

jpm, all the antiques I've ever owned, and most I've seen, are in the hundred or hundreds of years old, but his point was that it does depend on the local history, and some places have a traceable history with written language much older. Then there are the cave paintings various places that make nearly everything else look spanking new, those spiffy new Egyptian pyramids for example.

 

[kcghost]

A pipe should easily outlast its owner if cared for a little bit.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

If a pipe is properly cared for and not oversmoked, I see no reason it would ever wear out. You might have to replace a stem now and then but the briar itself should last virtually forever.

 

[josephcross]

This is my oldest pipe. I got it from Ben88, and is over 70 years old. There has been some repairs done to fix some of the charring, but now that its buttoned up I cant imagine this pipe not outlasting me.