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   clanobucklin
   

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   Meerschaums. Sigh. I have had a couple over the years. I just recently traded Uncle Arthur for a pipe and gave up my last one. A beautiful vintage "Skull" pipe. Trouble is I can't rid of the damn things. No sooner than I got rid of my last one - I got two more from friends! 1 is an image of someone famous. The other is a fun Bachus pipe with a long stem. Now the funny part is ... I have coveted the Bachus Meer for sometime but either wasn't in funds at the time of the "jonesing" or was off Meerschaums. And well here I am with a lonnng stemmed Bachus Pipe. I would love to see other meer pipes posted...just to see other carvings as well. Meers are cool smoking pipe of fossilized clay - giving probably the purest smoking experience of tobacco. Needless to say while I love 'em...I prefer wood/briar. Anyhoo post a picture guys and gals - here is mine:

   

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   This one is only about 4 inches long
   

   Made by Sethi. Total length is around 7-9 inches.
   
   

   Another Sethi
   

   Very old dragon claw:
   

   Servi:
   

   Peterson Manx Meer:
   

   SMS Meerschaum:
   

   Southerners don't talk slow because they're dumb, we do it because there's really no rush.

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   love the pipes. I don't own any but not from a lack of trying.

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   Very nice

   U.S.M.C. (SEMPER FI)

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   I have yet to get one, I am a fan of the classic shapes.

   Mason jars and bale top jars, mason jars and bale top jars.... that is all!
   
   "There’s truth in the statement that pipe tobacco will never be any less expensive than it is today, so think of your cellar as a cost averaged investment" - G.L. Pease

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   Wow! Beautiful Guys...keep 'em coming! I love the images - some beautiful carving in all of them. That's one thing that meers are known for amazing shapes and images. Here is the Meer Uncle Arthur got from me:

   
   

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   I'd love to get a Yanik meer, but damn they're expensive, lol.

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   I have two, the one in the foreground is an IMP and the huge one behind it is an Altinok. I'm not a big fan of intricate carvings in my own pipes, but I do like to look at other peoples artwork.

   

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    This is my $14 Meerschaum. I got it for $10.99 on Ebay and had to use $3 in parts to fix it. My favorite pipe to smoke and I smoke it almost every day!

    

    

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    Here are mine:
    The group photo is so you can have a size reference.
    My faves are my Sherlock and Holmes. Edit: Holmes and Watson.
    They are about a 10 min smoke...
    I can't even the tip of my little finger in the bowls.
    
    
    
    

    
    My Pipe Slide Show
    

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    My faves are my Sherlock and Holmes.

    
    @Lawrence: Don't you mean Sherlock & Watson?
    Some nice meets meers post here!!

    Edit: Better?

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    It was late.
    Yup.... Homles and Watson.

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    LOL Lawrence, look how I spelled Meers in my above post! ummm please fix it for me???

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    I got me a few.
    
    
    
    ADULT VIEWING ONLY!!!
    

    If at first you don't succeed you are running about average.

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    A "FEW" Unclearthur?!?!?

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    Great looking meers, guys. Here's my modest little collection.

    Baki
    

    Petes
    

    Servi
    

    IMP
    

    Dragon claw
    

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    Nice pipes puff.

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    Love the Meers! Nothing like 'em!

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    I want a big-ass Meer one day.

    Marry the right person, this one decision will determine 90% of your happiness.
    
    Does a culture based on seperation and competition, of scientific sophistication and mideval religion, offer happiness even as it ravishes the Earth that sustains it?

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    Here's the first page of 4....
    http://pipesmagazine.com/members/fred/album

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    Fred, I'm in lust over that IMP pickaxe and the Victorian Lady with Hounds.

    I'm chilling on a dirt road
    Laid back, swerving like I'm George Jones
    Smoke rolling out the window

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    I have 2 -

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    Here are my 2 meers

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    My first and only. I'm still warming up to the smoke and am definitely not ready to put down the briar.
    A pretty simple shape, but a perfect size.
    

    Al
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    Thanks Cyndi. These are both large Pipes that are good for up to a 2 hour smoke..., which they perform well with.

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    Wow, I didn't think the lady and hounds one was that big. The IMP looks like a monster. On a tangent, I have an odd hankering for any sculpture of Artemis (Diana in Greek) who was often in the company of hound dogs.

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    One of my favorite classical deities.

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    This is what got me started: She was sometimes known as Cynthia, from her birthplace on Mount Cynthus on Delos. I just see myself in a lot of the mythology surrounding her. Mom purposefully named me Cynthia Dawn so that my name would mean "a reflection of light before the sun comes." Then God brought me a child named Alyssa Dawn which means exactly the same thing, but hers is an Arabic form of the name. She was the only one of our kids we didn't rename when we adopted them.

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    Beautiful that you chose to adopt. Between yourself and Bootleg I have no doubts they are happy!

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    Any special tricks to cleaning a meer bowl?

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    I just use the dry paper towel twist after each smoke and gingerly pick at any cake with the spade on my Czech tool. Once in a moon, I'll soak a paper towel with Everclear and clean it, but less is more IMO. Of course, I take it light on purpose since I have an uncanny knack for obliterating fragile objects.

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    One day, I wish to have an incredible collection of Meerschaums like fred or unclearthur. I have a feeling if I hang around here enough, it will happen.

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    Kennerth welcome!

    Mr. Fred Bass one of our members is an authority on the subject of Meerschaum pipes. He is modest, but knows his stuff.

    Try this on for size:

    Slave to the White Goddess

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    Yep. We all pretty much defer to Fred.

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    Thanks for the info and great pictures. My first estate meer in in the mail!

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    Don't have many meers. Typical Calabash with meer bowl, maybe I'll carve Artemis and some hounds and sell this one to Cyndi, a meer lined Hilson Fantasia from the '70s and a small meer for sampling odd tobaccos, and short smokes

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    Happy, happy, joy, joy! I now join the ranks of proud meerschaum owners. Yesterday was my anniversary, and at breakfast my wife presented me with... some beeswax. When we went out for a nice dinner last night, we wandered to both of the downtown Victoria B & M's and chose this beauty:

    

    Not a very fanciful shape, but it crossed two things off the bucket list: a meerschaum and a Canadian shaped pipe.

    Simon

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    Looking to add a Meerschaum that is a littler bigger than the one I currently have

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    I might like to get a Meer one day...

    "To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there."

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    It's nice to have friends like that...one day I'll pick up a meer, for now I'm content with looking at all these beautiful pipes.

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    I have one Meer and I like it, I just have to get rid of the ghost it is carrying with it!

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    I just got my first, Tanganyika block. The collection and range of shapes you guys have are amazing! But, those skull ones I'll keep clear of, they give me the heeby jeebies..

    There is a light that never goes out.

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    I've joined the fun and am becoming a slave to the white goddess....
    
    

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    Gee if Envy is a Sin then Cast me into hell...

    say no more say no more Nudge nudge now what i mean?

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    This is my newest meerschaum. My mom bought it for me as a belated birthday present. I'm sitting here smoking some SG Firedance in it now.
    

    Edited to add: I don't know who the carver is. There are trinity rings stamped into the sides of the bowl and that's all the markings.

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    Here's a photo of the stamp. Bootleg is distracted by a video game where the main character is charged with lightning. *rolls eyes*

    

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    Cool whats the game! oh isnt that a biohazard symbol?

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    Give me the weed, the fragrant weed, My wearied brain to calm; In a wreath of smoke, while I crack my joke, I'll find a healing balm.

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    The game is called Infamous. I'm getting more of a magic circle vibe from that stamp instead of biohazard. Hmmm... lol

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    Well I only have just 1 meer, but it is a great smoker. Might not be the biggest name in meer but that dosent matter to me cause like I said it smoke so very good!!! It is a SMS Eagle Claw meer.
    

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    I've got a small sherlock style meer, as a matter of fact just smoked it last night. Meerschaum is made not from clay but petrified sea foam. It acts as a natural filter and thus should never be cleaned with alcohol or anything other than water as the meer will absorb the alcohol and lose some of its capacity for filtering, or so I've read. Also it is important to not let too much cake build up in the bowl as it may lead to cracks.

    I know what I need, smoke, I can't recall the last time I tasted it....Gandalf in the mines of Moria.
    
    "we shall have to share pipes, as good friends must at a pinch'....'I keep a treasure or two near my skin, as precious as rings to me. Here's one: my old wooden pipe. And here's another an unused one...He held up a small pipe with a wide flattened bowl, and handed it to Gimli. 'Does that settle the score between us', said Merry. 'Most noble hobbit, it leaves me deep in your debt."

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    I only have one Meerschaum pipe left but it is by far my favorite I have ever owned. A gentleman in my local pipe club decided he no did not really care for meerschaum pipes and traded me a tin of G L Pease Quiet Nights for the pipe. Needless to say I got a hell of a deal haha. As best I can tell it was probably carved by an apprentice as it is marked M. Y. and I have never heard of that carver (maybe I am just ill informed). That being said if it was an apprentice it was a skilled one at that.

    

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    Here is my Meer!

    

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    Here's the new one from Lonestar partially cleaned up and fitted with a new stem (bottom, the top one is one from 1915 for comparison.)
    
    

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    Charles, I've had a love/hate relationship with meers since taking up the pipe 6-7 years ago. I've had quite a few and while I love the look of the intricately carved ones, I too as others said, enjoy my standard shaped pipes.

    I also have found that most meers I've had just don't have an open draw like I prefer and can be a bit fiddly to get a good smoke out of. It has to do with the small hole in the screw in tenons that most meers use.

    Luckily I have a pipe smoking buddy here that loves his meers and will buy every one that I don't like, so I have a market for the ones I buy and just don't reach for often enough. And I don't lose money on them either.

    I did however find one at the "TAPS" pipe show in Raleigh NC a couple years ago and it has a slide tenon just like a briar and is a pretty standard shape. I do enjoy smoking this one. But, I can't find a picture of it.

    I also picked up a nice antique Bulldog with gold adornment and authentic amber stem that has some beautiful color. It was well smoked and loved by someone and is from the late 1800's. If only it could talk, the stories it could tell.

    Here is another that I still have..... It's a Kaywoodie 4-hole stinger meer.... only one I've actually seen and held in my hand.

    Steve: Pipemaker in Training!
    

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    A pair of beauties! Love the antique!

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    Unclearthur, That pipe came to me in that condition from ebay for $35 shipped. Funny how we set pipes aside and forget them. This post made me look for my meers. (Most pipe stuff still packed from a year ago) I dug the antique one out and am puffing it right now....... Keep them coming guys, I like looking at the meers.

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    Got a bunch of TOC pipes. I wish they could talk

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    Love all the pics, folks! I can only hope that someday my meer will have the sort of awesome coloring that smokindawg's has. Probably won't, but I can smoke, wax and dream.

    Simon

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    This is what I have. Got it "free" with a pipe stand I bought. Lady didnt think it was a real pipe so threw it in I hate the draw on this pipe. The stems airway is too restricted for the pipe. Oh well, it was free!
    
    I really want one like this...
    

    "I used to cry because I had no shoes. Until I met a man who had no feet"- My favorite and I use it to get by...
    
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