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  1. jonasclark

    Antique Meerschaum Depicting an Explorer Type: Who Might this Depict?

    Perhaps? His beard seems to cover his chin, and he has no earrings.
  2. jonasclark

    Antique Meerschaum Depicting an Explorer Type: Who Might this Depict?

    I saw that at the beginning of my search!
  3. jonasclark

    Antique Meerschaum Depicting an Explorer Type: Who Might this Depict?

    It is, unfortunately, neither of them. Neither had a beard, nor earrings.
  4. jonasclark

    Antique Meerschaum Depicting an Explorer Type: Who Might this Depict?

    EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title (See Rule 9) I'm looking at purchasing this pipe, a lovely antique with amber stem intact, a pre-color job mottled from heavy smoking. Case not pictured. As can be seen, it shows a man having a rather distinctive appearance! He's wearing a pith helmet, so...
  5. jonasclark

    1800's Swedish Meerschaum Hallmarks - Help Needed

    Yes, and gorgeous! I'm glad they smoke well.
  6. jonasclark

    Any Opinions on Okoume vs Gourd Calabash?

    Yes, that's gourd. I'd like to see the bowl itself. These were often meerschaum, sometimes "chip" aka "Vienna" meerschaum (pressed), sometimes porcelain (these are usually shiny glazed on top). At one point, I saw someone who was clearing out old tobacconist goods selling-- obviously, not for...
  7. jonasclark

    1800's Swedish Meerschaum Hallmarks - Help Needed

    FYI, these are called "lap pipes" (because of how you smoke them) and would have had a long cherry or "weischel" (a German cherry) wood stem, bark left on, and a horn mouthpiece. Later lap pipes were more like bent billiards; these are the early Turkish-shape.
  8. jonasclark

    Any Opinions on Okoume vs Gourd Calabash?

    My issue with the wooden ones I've examined in person, aside from weight, is that the chamber under the gourd, carved out of the wood, is not very large. A gourd is hollow all the way through. It's still a chamber, just I'd say less than a third the size. I won't argue with someone calling a...
  9. jonasclark

    Show Off Your Meerschaum Pipes Here!

    Wunkus has it correct. It had nothing to do with any asbestos. Turkey was losing money, and wanted to make meerschaum pipes a local-only industry. This change was created by declaring meerschaum a national treasure, and it occurred sometime in the mid-1960s. There were meerschaum mines in...
  10. jonasclark

    Show Off Your Meerschaum Pipes Here!

    By the way, re: wunkus' post... is there anywhere I (in the USA) could get my grubby paws on a small hunk of raw, block Turkish meerschaum for display?
  11. jonasclark

    Show Off Your Meerschaum Pipes Here!

    Telescopes, the CAO 'bashes with the uncommon lattice bowl are some of my favorites. And it's your first pipe? Hold onto that beauty!
  12. jonasclark

    Translucent Meerschaum

    I'm 100% behind Altinay on this one. I have several pipes like this. Some of my Ismet Beklers, abstracts carved for Royal and Golden Horn, are this way, as is a rose-in-hand carved by Huseyin Yanik (while in the process of ordering a pipe, I showed Mr. Yanik my collection, he attested that mine...
  13. jonasclark

    Any Opinions on Okoume vs Gourd Calabash?

    I'd be interested to see inside the bowl opening of the wood part. For a long time, SMS made mahogany-body calabashes that look similar to these in color, and their wood parts weren't drilled very deep. There was an expansion chamber, but not very much of one at all. And yes, they were...
  14. jonasclark

    Lamented Pipes: The Ones that Got Away

    I once had a Caminetto "New Dear" shape 155 (slightly bent chimney). I bought it in Hawai'i, at a tiny cigar shop in Kona, for $90. One day, it just vanished. I thought it might have fallen out of my jacket pocket, but I'm not sure. I'm still pining for a pipe like that, I really loved it. I've...
  15. jonasclark

    Estimated Date of Manufacture / Franz Hiess & Sohn

    Jguss, do you know if any off the Heiss family were carving pipes, or were they just businesspeople who employed carvers? An extraordinarily kind person gifted me a Heiss meerschaum, case stamped both inside on the fabric and on the outer edge, "Franz Heiss & Söhne." I trust Ben Rapaport, who...
  16. jonasclark

    March Meer Madness Is Upon Us

    Is it Akdoula? I have that carver as Akdolu. He carved many castle pipes, all huge.
  17. jonasclark

    Estimated Date of Manufacture / Franz Hiess & Sohn

    This style of fully-figural pipe seems to have lost popularity around 1900. So last 15 years or so of 1800s is my guess. Lovely carving. Stem is a replacement, original would have been amber. You have a gorgeous pipe.
  18. jonasclark

    Figural Meer Commission Recommendation

    I, too, say ask Sadik Yanik. And see if the horns could be made of acrylic and attached. Yanik is a good carver for things like that.
  19. jonasclark

    Missouri Meerschaum Now Owns Old Dominion

    I hope MM continues offering reed stems as an option. In fact, I wish they'd experiment with bending them, and consider offering runs of some modern interpretations of the pipes on those 1904 wall displays (also pictured in their 1909 catalog, of which MM has a copy).
  20. jonasclark

    Some Interestingly Expensive Ebay Pipes

    Yanik had a gigantic meer up for $15,000, featuring a family of horses. Zooming in, he depicted their veins. Showed it to my cousin who's been a horse show person since way back; she noted that they're thoroughbred horses and the muscle and bone structure is all correct.
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