2021 Holiday Pipe Auction - 100 Artisan Estate Pipes

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Chasing Embers

Captain of the Black Frigate
Nov 12, 2014
45,287
119,446
I find that almost funny coming from someone with a collection of skulls and that insane "Alien" contraption (difficult to find an apt description) ?
Momento mori is a widely popular collection. The xenomorph came about while marathoning the Alien movies and it occurred to me that the first one was released in 1979 and I didn't have a dedicated Mixture 79 pipe.
 

sablebrush52

The Bard Of Barlings
Jun 15, 2013
21,007
50,338
Southern Oregon
jrs457.wixsite.com
As before, there's a lot of creativity and highly evolved shaping skill on show, but too many of these pipes look like reflections in a fun house mirror. The Von Erck has all the signs of a do over, originally started out as a fluted spiral pipe, and a somewhat shallow blast added afterward over the bowl, possibly due to a flaw showing up in the spiral fluting of the bowl. Doesn't really work for me.

Once again, my bank account is safe.
 

chilllucky

Lifer
Jul 15, 2018
1,221
3,184
Chicago, IL, USA
scoosa.com
It's like browsing a museum of the most beautiful pipe art... AND WE CAN BUY THESE? AWESOME!!!
Yes, you absolutely can! In some cases, above the original retail price! With not one single penny going back to the original artisans! Some of whom are still working and may want your commission!



Sorry. 20 years of making furniture and then yelling at antiques roadshow... Kinda swept over me there.
 

alan73

Part of the Furniture Now
Apr 26, 2017
667
657
Wisconsin
Most of these pipes are not bought for common consumption . if one chooses to collect pipes purely on their collectibility, and or some pipe lineage , this and the last couple of Taurus auctions are orgasmic for the hard to find pipes (expensive) .
There was a thread 3 years ago about aspirational pipes for buying … many hard to find if ever , when they come up , you got to pounce … some of the pipe makers you only see once a few years if ever