Well when I purchased a 1920-30's era pipe the other day, the gent at the counter asked me a few questions.
"You collect pipes? Yes I really enjoy them. What do you do with them? Clean them to smoke able condition, and use them. Know anyone the fixes pipes? I do, at least minor repairs, and make pipes to. You make them, how about the stems? Yes, and stems are performed I just shape them down to fit a pipe."
He then goes on to tell me he has a bunch of pipes he got in a estate purchase, asked me if I would like to look through them. You guys already know that answer. I go through looking at them and he's asking which ones would be worth anything, how much certain ones would go for. I tell him it varies as a lot of folks won't but a pipe that has a cracked bowl, some won't buy a pipe that looks as bad as the ones he has, that they would need restoring. We talked for a good hour setting around a table digging through the first box. Which was mostly just the loose pipes, broken ones and a bunch with no stems. He has 3 more boxes with them being wrapped in paper. Saturday is going to be a full day. He asked me if I would restore them to sellable condition and he would split the sales with me. I say sure that would be cool, or just let me pick out some pipes as we go through them. Well here is the first batch waiting to be cleaned up.
"You collect pipes? Yes I really enjoy them. What do you do with them? Clean them to smoke able condition, and use them. Know anyone the fixes pipes? I do, at least minor repairs, and make pipes to. You make them, how about the stems? Yes, and stems are performed I just shape them down to fit a pipe."
He then goes on to tell me he has a bunch of pipes he got in a estate purchase, asked me if I would like to look through them. You guys already know that answer. I go through looking at them and he's asking which ones would be worth anything, how much certain ones would go for. I tell him it varies as a lot of folks won't but a pipe that has a cracked bowl, some won't buy a pipe that looks as bad as the ones he has, that they would need restoring. We talked for a good hour setting around a table digging through the first box. Which was mostly just the loose pipes, broken ones and a bunch with no stems. He has 3 more boxes with them being wrapped in paper. Saturday is going to be a full day. He asked me if I would restore them to sellable condition and he would split the sales with me. I say sure that would be cool, or just let me pick out some pipes as we go through them. Well here is the first batch waiting to be cleaned up.