For what you get, I think that they are high for my own wallet. The Briary got in a dozen Rattray dublins with military stems when I first started visiting there, and they were about twice as much as the other factory mass produced pipes in the same vein. I passed on them, and went home and looked online at the other Rattray pipes and how high they were elsewhere. I returned the next day to the Briary to buy that pipe, and all of them were gone. The next batch were priced even higher and sold just as fast. I wish now that I had not of wavered on it. I learned quickly that if I don't buy it when I see it, I may never get another chance, and I also learned that sometimes some pipes just weren't meant to be.