Search results

Log in

SmokingPipes.com Updates

2 Fresh Ken Dederichs Pipes
131 Fresh Peterson Pipes
11 Fresh Vauen Pipes
5 Fresh Christian Ruetz Pipes
9 Fresh Randy Wiley Pipes

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

  1. Dshift

    Photos Upload Issues

    This Falls under the whining category for sure, but I still want to share. I feel the new 5 photo limit to be quite restrictive, in addition there is a photo size limit that I can't figure out - sometimes it's triggered by the file size and sometimes by the resolution. Could someone share what...
  2. Dshift

    Peterson Amsterdam Stamp Mystery And New Estates Lot

    It's Friday and Friday means mail! A lot of interesting pipes and accessories, especially the old mappin & Webb pipe stand, but it just no fun without a peterson puzzle to solve😂 A gorgeous Kapruf x105 MADE IN IRELAND, and a stamp that says amsterdam on the bottom. Any ideas?
  3. Dshift

    Anyone Else Obsessed with Bent Rhodesians / Bulldogs?

    I just can't help myself, when it comes to this shape. Here is what I have gathered in my personal collection so far. The ones without stems I am restoring right now.
  4. Dshift

    Some Real Progress With Invisible Stem Repairs

    Ever since I started working on pipes I have been trying to achieve undetectable quality stem repairs. It's just such a plus to be able to preserve the original stem of a pipe. Although I am not 100% there yet, I think I got it and just need a bit more practice. This last example is on a...
  5. Dshift

    Help Dating an Old Made In England Pete

    Alright I do enjoy dating and identifying Petes, but sometimes I just hit a wall… This is what I am working with and I have been rereading the same 7-8 articles saying it could be a 1899-1970 pipe. Now I have had multiple English and Irish stamped pipes from the later part of this range, go...
  6. Dshift

    How To Tell If A Pipe is Clay Or Meer

    I just received this beauty but I can't tell what the material is.. does anyone know a good method to determine that?
  7. Dshift

    Intriguing European Pipe Market Finds

    There are a lot pipes in my corner of the world , which intrigue for one reason or another, sometimes even I don't know what the reason is, but I just can't help it. Most of the pipes I try to keep or pass on to friends as gifts or trades, but they are just too many... Also several people wrote...
  8. Dshift

    A Stunning Big Ben Two Top

    I just received another interesting pipe, which was immediately added to my collection. This being said I found 0 info on It. If anyone knows anything about it, please share.
  9. Dshift

    Question About Rehydrating Tobacco

    I like to think I am knowledgeable about pipes, but unfortunately that knowledge doesn't translate well when it comes to tobacco. Every once and a while I would get some tobacco with an estate pipes lot, like these 2 sealed ones So far I have been experimenting with rehydrating the very dry...
  10. Dshift

    Can Anyone Identify This Pete?

    Bitte entschuldigen Sie die Störung... - https://ebay.us/m/4O21QL
  11. Dshift

    Peterson’s Sterling Silver Shape 1080?

    I am looking at a shape number I don’t recognise and can’t find any info on. Is this some kind of a weird stamping mistake?
  12. Dshift

    This Week’s Restorations

    After almost two weeks of being crazy busy with my 9-5, I finally get to restore some pipes again and this is the lucky lot. Will update with some aftershocks photos once they are done.
  13. Dshift

    No COM Stamp Peterson’s Block Meerschaum

    Does anyone have an old Peterson Meer with no COM stamp, for comparison? Trying to roughly date this pipe with the font. Thank you in advance! 🙏
  14. Dshift

    Help With Paul Ilsted Grading

    From what I know there should be a number and a letter A-J , or no grading. I don’t know though if A is the highest or the J…
  15. Dshift

    Best Pipe Delivery Day Ever!

    It’s extra special because of the birthday year spigot🤩 Ignore the top most one, it wasn’t from today’s delivery
  16. Dshift

    Wall of Shame - Seller's Remorse

    Have you ever sold a pipe and immediately regreted it? Of course you have... But how often did that feeling last for months, maybe even years? Let's have this thread decorated with our own tears and regrets, in the hopes that one day it could save someone from the same faith!
  17. Dshift

    Birkdale Tornado Pipe - Let's Figure It Out

    I was rummaging through all the pipes I wasn't going to restore and I stumbled into this: There is a bunch of unfinished and inconclusive research. There are running theories of it being German manufacturing or it being a Comoy. Having the pipe in my hands I am almost certain that it's not made...
  18. Dshift

    Show Off Your Sexiest Pipe Shapes

    Brand & Model don’t matter! Grain doesn’t matter! Stain doesn’t matter! Price doesn’t matter!
  19. Dshift

    Finally Got Myself a Ferndown

    It's not the spigot that I wanted but beggars can't be choosers. Now I just to sneak it in the restoration queue.
  20. Dshift

    Weird Dunhill Stem & Tenon

    I have never seen anything like this and all of my alarms are kicking in, but let's see if it's just something obvious that only I didn't know... A dunhill with no white dot on the stem but a big white dot on the tenon?!? My guess - some kind of replacement maybe...