What Is This Shape Named?
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As soon as I saw that thing on the bottom I thought 'carburetor!'
Common on "pieces", considerably less so on tobacco pipes. In fact I've never heard of one.
I'm always shocked by old pipe ads, and the marketing effort that was expended to 'sell' customers a "cool, dry smoke". This could be something like that.
Common on "pieces", considerably less so on tobacco pipes. In fact I've never heard of one.
I'm always shocked by old pipe ads, and the marketing effort that was expended to 'sell' customers a "cool, dry smoke". This could be something like that.
Except that, in that Kaywoodie, the point of the "carburetor" is apparently to cool your smoke. In the "pieces" Elbert mentions, one is supposed to fill the thing with smoke, uncover the carburetor, inhale deeply, and have the huge influx of air shove it all into one's lungs in one big hit-- as far as I understand, always resulting in a horrible, hacking cough lasting for several minutes.
As for Buroak's pipe, my guess is that it's one of those designs where, for the purposes of both cooking and filtering, there's a hollow chamber inside the body, surrounding the bowl (or else the draft hole would enter the bowl about halfway up the side), and that plug is for de-gunking said chamber, where tar and juices would collect. I have no idea what the shape is actually called, but I'd agree on "Bilbo."
As for Buroak's pipe, my guess is that it's one of those designs where, for the purposes of both cooking and filtering, there's a hollow chamber inside the body, surrounding the bowl (or else the draft hole would enter the bowl about halfway up the side), and that plug is for de-gunking said chamber, where tar and juices would collect. I have no idea what the shape is actually called, but I'd agree on "Bilbo."
Put it in the middle of the floor and just start calling names till it responds to something. That's how all of my dogs get named.
blendtobac, Thanks for that suggestion. I had forgotten about the Dawes/Lyon pipe names. The Dawes, Lyon, Underslung (Wally Frank) and Campaign (WDC)are all in the right neighborhood, except for this pipe's lack of a removable inner bowl. Still, having some shape names to reference will be much appreciated by the seller.
I saw a shape like that in an old Wally Frank catalog once. I think it was called a "Boer" shape.
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