What I saw today makes me want to cry. My job is in the field so I drive all over the state. So what I like to do is visit antique stores/malls to see if I can find any estate pipes to pick up. Well went by a antique mall up north that I had not been to before and was looking around to see what they had. I was quite excited at first when I found a cabinet with 10-15 pipes in it. Through the glass they looked to be in decent condition, so I asked for them to open the cabinet so I could take a look at them. There was a Nording, Comoy, Grabow, Custombilt and several other generic pipes. Then I noticed that all the chambers were completely clean like they had never been smoked(strange I thought). Took a closer look and on all of the pipes the cake had been ream down to the briar(which I can live with). But then the briar under the cake had been carved out on all the pipes so the they looked like they had never been smoked. Some of the tobacco chambers weren't even round any more. Looked like they had used a knife. It was so sad to see how they had mutilated the pipes. Some people just deserved to be slapped.
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