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shutterbugg

Lifer
Nov 18, 2013
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No doubt I overpaid, but they're NOS never smoked, and 2 of my fav shapes. I've got 2 meers, one of them is probably 75 yrs old and was my dad's, the other I got around '73-'74. Good smokers but I never cared for the look of them, I don't even like light-stained briars. I really like the way these ones look like dark rusticated briar.
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1adsarge

Starting to Get Obsessed
Jan 19, 2016
157
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NE Nevada
Very nice pipes you acquired there good Sir! I must have been contagious as I acquired 6 new pipes last week so I apologize :puffy: :mrgreen:
Cheers,

Jared

 

sjfine

Part of the Furniture Now
Mar 4, 2012
653
4
I am just guessing, but I suspect that thos are no more meers than a cob from Missouri Meerschaum is.
Edit: I re-read the post. Those are meer? Wow.

 

tennsmoker

Lifer
Jul 2, 2010
1,157
7
I've never seen a meer like that. I have a couple of "meer-lined" pipes, but nothing like these beauties.

 

shutterbugg

Lifer
Nov 18, 2013
1,451
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Thanks for the positive reinforcement! I was expecting it to be pointed out that African meer is inferior to Turkish (read that in researching it) and that the point of a meer is to start with snow white and watch it color. To which I agree, but frankly my 2 meers are 40 and 75 yrs old and have been smoked thousands of times and are still barely off-white-to-light-tan and I don't have that many years left ;)
The guy has a couple NOS left, a straight apple (mistakenly listed as a billiard) and a bent billiard. Really for a C note you can't go far wrong. And there's also someone selling a prince like I got but it has been smoked lightly. Put in "Tanganyika Countryman" in the search box.

 

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
41,210
60,433
Really unusual pipes. Quite a find. Were they really crafted in Tanganyika? Utterly unique. And unsmoked. Yipes. Yes, the prince is a charmer.

 

rblood

Starting to Get Obsessed
Mar 2, 2015
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I was expecting it to be pointed out that African meer is inferior to Turkish
That may well be, but the African block meer is a lot less fragile as well. I have a few Peterson African Blocks - surprisingly rugged for meer.
Beautiful pipes, by the way!

 

buroak

Lifer
Jul 29, 2014
1,867
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Those are nice-looking pipes. They may, though, not be meerschaum. The Tanganyika Meerschaum Corp also made briar pipes. Do the pipes have "Block Meerschaum" stamping on them?

 

shutterbugg

Lifer
Nov 18, 2013
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The Tanganyika Meerschaum Corp also made briar pipes. Do the pipes have "Block Meerschaum" stamping on them?
They did make briars, plain and meerschaum-lined, but the Countryman line was block meer. And yes it is so stamped, and also printed on the box.

 

buroak

Lifer
Jul 29, 2014
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They did make briars, plain and meerschaum-lined, but the Countryman line was block meer. And yes it is so stamped, and also printed on the box.
Fantastic! I have never seen Tanganyika Meers in that all-dark finish. The only specimens I have seen were whitish with fumed rims.

 

fordm60

Part of the Furniture Now
Dec 19, 2014
598
5
Shutterbugg, stunning pipes!! I think you found two supurb pipes that should smoke wonderfully! Please do provide an update on how they smoke!

 
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