MM Cob Prices Going Up In October

Just visited the Missouri Meerschaum site from the Forums link and ordered a Dagner poker cob, which I've been coveting for a while. While poking around the site, I came upon a note informing customers that all their prices will go up in October, after some years with no price increases. So if you are filling your MM cob needs, you may want to do so before this occurs. Even with an incremental price increase, these are tremendous bargains. Some consider cobs a disposable pipe, and for those who take them camping, fishing, and in their vehicles, that's probably the right attitude. But in fact, cobs can be a permanent feature of your stable for decades or longer. I've outfitted mine with Forever stems in some cases. I have a large freehand (natural) that came with an acrylic stem. The attractive feature on the Dagner is the acrylic stem, in addition to its sitter feature and nickel band, pricey for a cob, very little money for a pipe. So, just a heads up from the Missouri Meerschaum people, if you're buying cobs, sometime before October is a good time to get them.

bluegrass', who knows, but I'd guess they'd go up a little.

The prices go up October 1, so be advised. The bag of seconds currently sells ten pipes for $33.99, so I would expect it to go up by whatever percentage other items increase. I don't know what that will be, so make your own guess. Five or ten percent, I'd surmise, knowing nothing.

I'm smoking my quite-large bent freehand MM cob with an acrylic stem, glad I have seven cobs on the rack at yesterday's prices, and another in the mail at today's prices. I'm smoking P&C's Midtown Chestnut non-aro tub tobacco, which goes very well in the tall bowl. And by coincidence I'm wearing my MM cob pipe feed cap which I received, the last one they had, as a giveaway at the 2016 TAPS pipe show, which retails at about $11 if I remember.

I should have mentioned, the MM website says that the last time prices went up on their products was January 1, 2011, so that's a six-plus yeas stretch of stable prices. They point out that while inflation is low, their costs are up.

chasing', my wife gave me the MM freehand, and somewhere I saw they were fitted, at one time not long ago, with an acrylic stem. So I assumed that's what I had. When I was shopping for the Dagner, I looked at the freehand offered, and it was listed with a Vulcanite stem, so I examined mine more closely. Now, I believe you are correct. It came very bright and shiny, but now I think it is Vulcanite. Or I'm very suggestible. But this does seem softer than acrylic. The size of the Dagner is given at the MM site, and it sounds like a short pipe with an ample bowl. However, if it comes as a Group 2 after all, I can use it -- with plug, flake, and rope -- for a pretty good smoke. Supposedly, the cob crops have been a little bigger the last year, so maybe the bowls are too. Hope so. But thanks for the warning; I'll try to remember to let you know.