Hello all. Yesturday, I was very fortunate to have been gifted 8 Estate Pipes from an old neighbour. I recenly saw my old neighbour from my old neighbourhood that I grew up in. I remembered her husband (RIP, passed away 2 years ago) always had a pipe going, day and night. When we were kids, we could smell that pipe on the street and it smelled so good. I stopped her the other day on the street and asked what type of tobacco her husband smoked. Without a pause, she said "Erinmore, he always smoked Erinmore". We then caught up a bit and I advised her that I had taken up the pleasure of pipe smoking. Without hesitation, she said, "stop by the house, you can have his pipes, I have no use for them now and I didn't know what to do with them." I have attached the pics. They are in desperate need of attention, which I will enjoy bringing them back to life. I figured I would show you the before photo's and then the after photo's, which I'm sure will take me quite a while due to my busy work schedule. This is what I could find on them. All but one have markings of some sort. I'm not sure what the one is without markings, could be a basket pipe for all I know. I have printed off some re-furbashing points about pipes and oxidation, oxyclean, salt and alcohol treatment, etc..but anything else you can tell me, including info on these pipes would be greatly appreciated. One of them is a Danmore of Denmark, huge pipe. Another one is a Stanwell Bulldog style but with such faded wording, I can't tell what model? Any tips for cleaning these up would be awesome and if you know ages of some of these perhaps? They could be anywhere from 40 years to current, he always had a pipe for over 30 years that I know of.. Enjoy.
In the order of photo's, they are
Stanwell Sterling 75
Danmore of Denmark
Stanwell Majectic 32
Stanwell Royal Briar 75M
Brigham 509
Stanwell Bulldog?
Stanwell 169
Peterson Delux 12 1/2 S
And the unknown
I also received this humidor and pipe rack.
look forward to the after pics.
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