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How to Sell a Large Lot of Pipes
All of these have at least a tiny sliver of cake (none won't take my index finger-- unfortunately, my finger's size isn't well-known like Marty Pulvers' thumb) and over half have some faint tooth marks and/or a bit of rim-darkening, so Pipestud won't take them. Pardon me. The one at top left...- jonasclark
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- Forum: Pipe Talk
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How to Sell a Large Lot of Pipes
Any idea what I should ask for it? The owner wants these sold, they're just giving me as long as it takes and they trust me to figure out reasonable prices-- a nice change from the expected "no lowballs, I know what I have!"- jonasclark
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- Forum: Pipe Talk
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How to Sell a Large Lot of Pipes
Title edited for caps and brevity A friend of a friend buys at estate sales, mostly furniture, and resells. He'll say, "I'll take everything in this room, everything in this room..." etc. so large lots of furniture getshipped to him. In the base of a hutch (and he has no idea which sale it was...- jonasclark
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- Forum: Pipe Talk
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Tiny Meerschaum Cutty With History
Lovely pipe with very interesting provenance!- jonasclark
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- Forum: Pipe Talk
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Austria Stamping Near the Button?
I haven't! Stem is plastic, so probably 1950s.- jonasclark
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- Forum: Meerschaum Pipes
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What Are Your Favorite Pipes To Collect?
Ismet Bekler's abstract meerschaums, early ornate corncob pipes and Kirsten pipes are my favorites. Kirstens are, in my opinion, wonderful smokers. About the only specific pipes I'm still after fit these categories: a Kirsten cigarette holder, a Kirsten pipe in the "Western satin" coppery finish...- jonasclark
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- Forum: Pipe Talk
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Odd Old Pipes
Yes, shopuld have a length of cherrywood (with the bark on) for a shank. The abguss, the lower-ost part which acts as a well to catch the tobacco juices, is connected wrong; the curled part should face the same direction as the bowl. The wide bit below the stem is a piece of antler.- jonasclark
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- Forum: Pipe Talk
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Meerschaum Calabash Pipe
Do you mean clys or meerschaums? Decorated clays are molded. This is a plain clay, but black: https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/clay-pipes/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=509976 If they get these back in stock, or any of their other black clays (they do stock some black ones right now), there's...- jonasclark
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- Forum: Meerschaum Pipes
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Meerschaum Calabash Pipe
Sherlock Holmes related to stage, film and television, yes. A clay pipe (Old Domions can be had for under $50) is more literary Holmes, but unlike him, you probably shouldn't smoke it until it turns black-- and sour-- and then just keep smoking it like that. If you do get a clay pipe, once it...- jonasclark
- Post #16
- Forum: Meerschaum Pipes
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Help with Meershaum identification…
Also: it's often said that Turkish meerschaums are all crude compared with antiques. But compared to other antiques, apples to apples, a lot of antiques, especially cheroot holders, were fairly crude too. Yours isn't museum-quality, but it's very nice.- jonasclark
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Help with Meershaum identification…
That is a holder for a cheroot, a small cigar which predated the common thicker cigars of today. The stem is real amber, and has been shortened at some point, possibly to deal with a crack near the shank. Opium pipes have a long, straight tube like an orchestral flute, with a bulbous bowl...- jonasclark
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A Huge Shoutout and a Very Generous Gift from Humblepipe
I, too, have been the recipient of an incredibly-generous gift of a beautiful pipe from a member. This community is wonderful to each other. Your Chacom is gorgeous, and that's a sharp shape!- jonasclark
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My First Meerschaum
Did the person who used to write up creative (and sometimes funny) descriptions of their estate meerschaums leave the company? Whoever handles them now just puts this write-up and a tiny description on every one.- jonasclark
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- Forum: Meerschaum Pipes
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First Visit to Iwan Ries - Anything I Should Know?
I wonder if calling ahead and asking them to bring out estates proper, or if pipes "in the back" are really accessible.- jonasclark
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacconists - B&M's and Internet Retailers
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My klutziness strikes again! Amber is fragile...
I'm probably going with RustiePyles. His price is more than reasonable and the lucite color he showed is lovely.- jonasclark
- Post #28
- Forum: Meerschaum Pipes
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My klutziness strikes again! Amber is fragile...
Anyone you'd recommend besides Briarville for hand-cutting an acrylic stem? I've already contacted Rich several days ago, no response yet. Sadly, there are no colors of acrylic I've seen which really appeal to me; the closest in color to amber are either tortoiseshel;l (which is not the same)...- jonasclark
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- Forum: Meerschaum Pipes
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My klutziness strikes again! Amber is fragile...
I just have no idea who does that kind of banding, or whether I can afford it. I'm also still unclear on who made stems for @ashdigger.- jonasclark
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- Forum: Meerschaum Pipes
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My klutziness strikes again! Amber is fragile...
I'd love to have it banded to cover the chip, but it'd have to fit both the oval profile and the bend very closely. I have no idea who could make that. By Ashdigger, do you mean Rusie here who made this p-lip for one of his pipes...- jonasclark
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- Forum: Meerschaum Pipes