Kind of makes you wonder what will happen to the prices of collectible pipes a few years down the line if the pipe tobacco market becomes more restrictive. I'm not buy much of either anymore. Got plenty of both.What are these sellers thinking offering such grand pipes? Don't they know we're supposed to be buying tobacco right now?
MSO, Our minds are thinking very much alike on this point, which is either good for me or bad for you. There are manifold possible outcomes between those you posit, but I think what actually happens will tend towards one of those outcomes. The first outcome seems more likely, but I think there is a fair chance that pipe smoking enthusiasts lacking new blends to buy may focus more on collecting pipes.Good point, sable'. What does a limited and less various market for blends do to pipe prices? It would seem to decrease the numbers of pipe buyers and lower the prices, unless pipe collection rather than smoking per se became much more popular -- possible but not necessarily likely.
I guess I was wrong. A reseller did snap it up: http://www.ebay.com/itm/401328852284?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AITAl, I figure it eluded the saved searches of several collectors. I was at least glad to see that it was not apparently snapped up by a reseller.
Yup. I was watching that just to see what it sold for. An interesting pipe, notice no shape number. To my eye, the bowl just looks a little too short, sort of in between shapes 299 and 296...I guess I was wrong. A reseller did snap it up