Very Very Rare S. Bang Grade F Pipe

Grade F?
Yes.
F for Fake!

:lol:
This pipe is so ridiculous that it must've been a prank pulled at a pipe club meeting or something!
It doesn't take a discerning eye to distinguish this thing is a blatant fake, the shaping is hideous and the stamping is so obviously botched that it could never fool anyone.
I though it was funny though and thought I'd share a link...
VINTAGE PFEIFE PIPE GEBRAUCHT S. BANG COPENHAGEN HANDMADE IN DENMARK GRAD B !!
Sidenote:

I've read that Bang should be pronounced Bong,

is this correct?

:?:

Cosmic, I'm a cheap-ass bastard and find that the US market goes too often astronomical beyond my meager means which forced me to find other avenues.
My best deals have been found on the overseas ebay, but often shipping to USA ain't listed and if there's something you're interested in then you have to write the seller and ask, I usually use google translate for a simple question if it's a foreign language.
I once scored a Castello 93 from the Italian ebay for crazy cheap.
The German ebay.de is always good with lotsa pipe stuff because they have many pipesmokers, just type in "pfeife" and tons of listings pop up, you gotta be careful though because many are 9mm filtered pipes, and quite often, highgrade stuff will be there too, sometimes for a steal, like this Emil Chonowitsch:

Pfeife Chonowitsch, Ohne Filter,TOP

Dunno how much it'll end up going for, but usually such stuff ends up under the usual USA price lines.
Sometimes it's easy because the seller lists shipping prices to the USA, curious to see how this one goes even though I don't like smooths...

Paul Becker -Handarbeit- Pfeife, Pipe, Sammlung, Konvolut, Estate
ebay.it also has lots and lots of pipe stuff.
ebay.fr is excellent for older meerschaums and every now and then classic Brits, and also the older AllBriar pipes which France seemed to originate - I found this one on ebay.fr and it was particularly appealing because it carried the stamping of a famous British tobacconist, H. Simmons:

http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/the-fabulous-french-all-briar-has-arrived
ebay.com.au is the perfect place to find sealed cutter top tins, but prices can often climb because in Australia there are a good number of serious tin collectors who tend to pay top dollar.
Also, on the regular ebay on the left hand side is an "item location" filter, select "worldwide" and more items pop up and the good thing is that many of those do already list shipping costs for the USA.