Anybody An Expert on S. Bang Pipes?
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If you do your home work you can get them in the 5 to 6 hundred dollar range. I have 5 and the lowest price if I remember is 400$ and the highest is 800$. Got one with a bad shank repair a Giant Billard for 125$ and Mike Meyers banding it for me. If I am looking right yours has Noltemeniser the carvers initials on the shank.
All on the Bay with the exception of the 800$ one I bought from Mike at Briar Blues. Mike is a good man to deal with and his prices are some of the best. I am no expert I just smoke em.
Nice pipe. I grabbed an unsmoked Bang from pipestud a year or so back for just under 800. There are deals to be had if you look around. I think you did well. I would typically expect a grade 8 to go for 900 or so in good pre-smoked condition.
Treasure Pipes is one of the good guys in the hobby/Ebay. Sometimes his auctions slip thru unnoticed (good for you!). I picked up a Jack Howell earlier this year for a song, the pipe was pristine and service excellent.
Al, i was watching that auction and it just slipped through the cracks and i forgot to bid on it and watch it in the final minutes, lol. I saw what it went for and could have kicked myself, but i am glad it went to a scholarly gentleman such as yourself! Oh well, there is ALWAYS another auction to score on. I FINALLY won a barely used one owner Ashton XXX pebble that went largely unnoticed. It is coming in the mail tomorrow and i will be sure to make a post about it.
Actually, that pipe has the old "Kobenhavn" stamp and the grade number 8 indicates it was made for the European market and may be a filter pipe (although not necessarily). Collectors tend to stay off of those a bit because the Bang boys sent their best stuff to the USA in those days. That pipe was carved though by Ulf as his initials are on that one. So, you know its a quality pipe.
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Pipestud
I read this online... Is it not accurate?
"Once Hansen and Noltensmeier took over the company (in 1984) they knew it was best to retain the S. Bang name - the two carvers always shared the same philosophy about that. Noltensmeier and Hansen were determined to maintain top quality at the expense of increased numbers. The only change they made concerns the stamping on the pipes changing from the English version "COPENHAGEN" to the Danish "KOBENHAVN"."
"Once Hansen and Noltensmeier took over the company (in 1984) they knew it was best to retain the S. Bang name - the two carvers always shared the same philosophy about that. Noltensmeier and Hansen were determined to maintain top quality at the expense of increased numbers. The only change they made concerns the stamping on the pipes changing from the English version "COPENHAGEN" to the Danish "KOBENHAVN"."
That's what I read on pipedia C to K being the newer version, but Steve has been in the business a long time. So I will differ to Steve.
Please don't defer to me, I don't know what I'm talking about 3/4 of the time. And I need to offer a public apology because I mis-stated the K vs. C thing. I got it backwards. So, that pipe is actually a newer version. But, it is a European graded pipe with the number 8 grade stamp (I think they grade them 5 through 9 and then A through D in Europe). I don't think they use the European grade stamp anymore... but again, I could certainly be wrong.
Apologies again,
Pipestud
Apologies again,
Pipestud
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