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  1. jonasclark

    My klutziness strikes again! Amber is fragile...

    On antique pipes, I love the oxblood coloring.
  2. jonasclark

    My klutziness strikes again! Amber is fragile...

    I mean this exact type. Small, squat apple, meerschaum, deeply bent, diamond shank with metal band, amber saddle stem. Yes, it came with a case in somewhat rough shape. For some stupid reason, I didn't have it in its case. Here's another with a plain band, uncolored, marked "Cecil" Another...
  3. jonasclark

    My klutziness strikes again! Amber is fragile...

    Little apple-shape, yes oxblood coloring. I'd walk ten miles for another like it, if anyone has a lead. I've seen ones like this with Bakelite stems, too.
  4. jonasclark

    My klutziness strikes again! Amber is fragile...

    This pipe, one for which I'd been bhunting for 25+ years, fell out of my pocket today onto a tile floor, and the stem snapped, losing a large chip which I couldn't locate. Of course, this gives me a sudden wave of extreme PAD, which I'm trying to force down because I really can't afford another...
  5. jonasclark

    Torch lighters and meerschaum?

    On that note: the local Tinder Box gave me a free pipe, a Cassano "Ambra." Handed it over and said, "What's wrong with this pipe?" The rusticated band hides the 1/2" hole burned through the wall, just above and to one side of the shank. A customer bought one, returned it in this condition...
  6. jonasclark

    Amazing carvings, left unsmoked?

    I smoke aromatics, and I know they ghost even harder in a meerschaum. Three of my Bekler abstracts are unsmoked, and I'd rather leave them in case a future owner does not want to use them for sweet stuff.
  7. jonasclark

    First Visit to Iwan Ries - Anything I Should Know?

    Yes, I'll be taking a lot of photos. I've found many online, and their site has a lot too, but there aren't enough detail shots of pipes for me. The site's tour gives a pretty good idea of what the shop looks like; mine will be about details.
  8. jonasclark

    First Visit to Iwan Ries - Anything I Should Know?

    Much appreciated! The advice about parking (or lack thereof) is important. And yes, I'll take lots of photos. I'll have a very firm limit to my budget.
  9. jonasclark

    First Visit to Iwan Ries - Anything I Should Know?

    I'm visiting a friend in October, will be in milwaukee, Madison and Chicago, and I've finagled a stop at Iwan Ries, a pipe pilgrimage for me. I'm a collector first and a smoker second, but I hope to buy a pipe there-- just something I can say I bought there - and some tobacco. I've looked...
  10. jonasclark

    My First Altinay / Coloring progression

    That's coloring very nicely!
  11. jonasclark

    Are These Meers Chip or Block?

    Paykoc are fair pipes. These are indeed basic-level block. The only thing I'd suspect of being pressed/chip are the little mini meers.
  12. jonasclark

    Show Me Your Walt Disney World Pipes

    I went to the Main Street Tobacco Shop as a ten-year-old pipe collector. They didn't have a big selection. I bought a Medico Brylon yachtsman I lost ages ago, and a Pioneer gourd calabash with what I was told was absolutely a meerschaum bowl (it was porcelain). That was 1989, and I know they...
  13. jonasclark

    Missouri Meerschaum Cob - Blue Barcode Label?

    The closest I've seen were some Chinese ones branded "Tibbes." As if most people who buy a Chinese cob would know (or care) who Henry Tibbe was.
  14. jonasclark

    Reverse Calabash Cob

    Incidentally, if anyone is so incensed about MM marketing to smokers of greener substances that they want to get rid of theor cobs, just send 'em to me. I'll take them off your hands.
  15. jonasclark

    Help! What on earth did I just buy?

    Absolutely an 80s-or-newer small Turkish meer, almost certainly block. Even this basic grade had the case made just to fit that one pipe.
  16. jonasclark

    1900's or Earlier? WDC Real Amber Find

    All I can say is that it's pretty, and that sure looks like real amber to me. I don't see that shape much.
  17. jonasclark

    Calabash-shaped Pipe and Real Calabash Gourd Pipe

    Yes, they're grown in a sort of compression block to create the proper curve. One thing that makes meer 'bashes heavier is that the vast majority of '50s-and-newer ones (Pioneer, etc.) have pressed meer bowls, which are heavier, often significantly so. Here are mine. The two big-bowl Pioneers...
  18. jonasclark

    Vintage Meer ID

    Gorgeous! It's basically the Dublin version of the Lee Van Cleef pipe: same calcined finish, same yellow Bakelite stem. Definitely 1950s and probably made in Austria by someone like Strambach or Andreas Bauer. I'm not big on straight pipes, but I'd be excited about this one!
  19. jonasclark

    Ugly Pipes

    And here he is! This is a CAO pipe, too!
  20. jonasclark

    Meerschaum pipe, any info would be helpful.

    I wouldn't be surprised if Kaywoodie used block liners. As far as I know, all meer-lined pipes today use pressed.
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