Pair Of Falcon's - EBay Purchase

Falcons - EBay
Got these beauties off EBay, no one else bid.

The description and photos were exactly as it is.

It arrived very quickly today, I spent the afternoon on them.
Boy the rusticated one was heavely smoked, and loved.

I spent two hours reaming the bowl with my Butner reamer.

And an hour cleaning the metal humidor. It was worth it it's a bobby dazzler.

I thought it might be beyond my humble abilities to bring it to its new life. That cake in the bowl was like iron and the tar in the humidor was only able to be removed with alcohol, and whipes.

I smoked it tonight, previous owner smoked Condor, a little ghosting.

It's a brilliant pipe, they don't make bowls like that anymore.
The second Falcon hardly needed any effort, a little reaming. I am smoking it tomorrow.
The stand is far better than I thought it was going to be and most useful.
Great addition to my pipe collection.
Yes I am an eBay bottom feeder, but have to cut the cloth! On a tight budget, now I am medically retired.

All cleaned and smoked

Good pipes and a great stand, love them.

Thanks it took a lot of sweat, must have been a 1960's Falcon stamped FD16 under humidorm. Don't think it was ever cleaned.

The cake was like iron, able to do top of bowl relatively okay but the middle and bottom was very difficult. The inside of the humidom had very thick tar.

But the previous owner smoked it because he liked the pipe and the way she smoked.

As I do now.

Thanks for all your comments.
Kind regards George

Thank you Jay for your advice and as always thanks for your comments and inhansed photos jpmcwjr always appreciated.
Regards

George