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  1. jonasclark

    Rich’s in Portland OR

    I love Rich's, too. Enormous pipe selection. They bought half of the Bekler pipes (mostly variants on classic shapes, smooth and relief-carved) CAO still had in backstock when Cano got out of the pipe biz to focus on cigars. Only a fraction of the Beklers are on display; when I asked about, I...
  2. jonasclark

    Racine & Laramie. Old Town San Diego

    Racine & Laramie is my favorite West Coast pipe shop. The antique pipe museum is cool. The original pueblo had a tobacconist that was open for something like five years, before the entire pueblo burned down. These guys opened in the seventies as "Golden Bull" and tried to build it so it felt...
  3. jonasclark

    Grandma Outdid Herself

    Very, very cool. I wouldn't doubt you're right about the "Allsorbo" being this! This is only the second time I've heard of a pipemaker mixing meerschaum powder and other substances to make pipes, and the other was in 1960s-70s USA (and using the only-described-as-such "fossil" for the other...
  4. jonasclark

    Question About Meerschaum Quality.

    I don't know about seconds, honestly. I suspect that, when grown for pipes (they use a sort of block or mold to form them) the results are relatively uniform and nearly all end up useable. Pioneer had a script "P" stamp used on some stems, but I've never personally seen a stamped Pioneer...
  5. jonasclark

    Slimming Down -- Culling the Collection

    Anyone wants to chuck pipes in the trash, send me a note, I may want them and would pay postage.
  6. jonasclark

    Top B&M Shops in New York?

    Graffiti and homeless is every big city, and if you walk like you have somewhere to be, you tend to get by fine. I live in Seattle, which gets loads of claims of out-of-control and dangerous homeless; I walk a lot, including wearing a suit, including late at night, including through infamous...
  7. jonasclark

    Question About Meerschaum Quality.

    The pipe pictured is a Pioneer brand, as evidenced by the military mount-like stem. Their stems and ferrules are always black and always this shape. These are 1960s-era. They may have had block, pressed or porcelain (distinguishable by being thin, unlike what's pictured). I, personally, have...
  8. jonasclark

    Question About Meerschaum Quality.

    Many last-century calabash bowls were pressed, one of the only things besides tiny minis I've seen in pressed from Turkey. They seem to smoke okay. They're not going to color like block, but neither do they fall apart. Could you please show me the entire pipe, and case if it has one? (I don't...
  9. jonasclark

    Grandma Outdid Herself

    That lovely pipe is cast clay, not meerschaum! It's definitely less common to see slipware pipes like this. I think a plug-in stem is typical for the figural ones, and I haven't seen this thistle before.
  10. jonasclark

    Show Off Your Meerschaum Pipes Here!

    It does not.
  11. jonasclark

    Another One Requiring A New Stem

    Paul, in my opinion 100% that's all antique. Silver is, amber is, case is, case fits pipe like a glove = it's original. New stem is lovely, who made it?
  12. jonasclark

    Show Off Your Meerschaum Pipes Here!

    I do. The Presidential series by William Demuth & Co. are briefly mentioned. Hoover was the last in the series.
  13. jonasclark

    Show Off Your Meerschaum Pipes Here!

    Condorlover, how does one spot them "amberite" stems?
  14. jonasclark

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

    I've seen a few (modern, of course) renditions of Popeye. Only one or two were any good.
  15. jonasclark

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

    Update: yes, he's as I'd hoped. His beard does indeed go below his chin, and the circles on the sides are most definitely earrings.
  16. jonasclark

    Dunhill Meerschaum (Man With Beard)?

    Burleyboy has it! It's absolutely because of the Dunhill book. It's both the origin of Turkish carvers using that specific subject, and of sellers calling that a "Dunhill." To be a "Dunhill," it really needs that style of soft cap, the tassel hanging to one side, and an old face with a long...
  17. jonasclark

    Lost Pipe. Bleh.

    Do you by any chance have a "Western" finish? If yours needs work, I suggest Rebornpipes, who does a great job, or Doug Bisbee at DKMetalPipes (I don't know if Doug restores ion spec, he may just sell).
  18. jonasclark

    Lost Pipe. Bleh.

    It's a brass Regent. Medium quarter-bent. I've found a replacement-- but what I may be looking for now is any Kirsten in the so-called "Western" or "Traditional" finish, which was a gold-coppery color from the early 1970s (there were polished and satin versions). Do you by any chance have one of...
  19. jonasclark

    Lost Pipe. Bleh.

    That's the Designer model. Silver stem, black (probably vulcanite) mouthpiece, bulldog bowl. Big pipe that balances nicely. The bottom right pair in my photo at top are Designers.
  20. jonasclark

    Lost Pipe. Bleh.

    In Seattle, someone is already smoking non-tobacco out of it.
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