How does Jethro from the Beverly Hillbillies factor in?
An expression of my joy and exulting happiness while smoking this treasure. A symbolic token.
Got it from an antiquary in England who didn’t like eBay. He had his own website and sold exclusively antique pipes. I asked him about the origin of the pipe and he said “I got it from a gentleman whose family had it in a drawer since the 1920-30s because no one in the family smoked pipes.”
Great story. I have owned a few 100-yr old felt hats that lived similar unused lives.
Well, the weird part of the story is when he didn’t want to ship the pipe because it was too valuable and he was afraid it would be lost/stolen in transit. My daughter, who lives in Switzerland, travelled to London to pick it up. She made a video of the transfer meeting.
What an acquisition! A personal hand off is a the way to go for a pipe like that.
On the smaller end of magnums. With those chamber dimensions, more like a large group 6. Typical of the smaller pipes I had.
That Boer is definitely magnum. The Dunhill dimensions are the same as this Morgason and many of the others I had. A 1"x2" chamber was my bare minimum for chambers.
Yeah, show us something like this:
