$5000 Estate

[docwatson]

It's a $50 Stanwell without the stamping. As with any collectible pipe, nomenclature is everything

^^ This^^
Counterfeiting will now commence somewhere IMO.

 

[sablebrush52]

sabble, it does surprise me a bit that someone would say it smokes like a Grabow. Now if he said it smoked as well as a Rad Davis or similar quality pipe, that would not surprise me, but a Grabow, that I find a bit much.

Harriet, it surprised me as well. For the life of me, I can't figure out how he could afford those Grabows. Perhaps he was trying to impress me to make a point. As for the financial lifespan of these pipes as "investments", like a lot of recent developments, only time will tell. It's like the market for super old tobacco. It' a fringe section of a fringe section of a fringe section. All this reminds me of the tulip craze.

 

[sablebrush52]

Counterfeiting will now commence somewhere IMO.

The counterfeiting has already started. Two years ago there was a long and lively thread relating to an eBay seller who was listing fake Danish pipe, among them a "Nordh". That "Nordh", which was a really clumsy fake, sold to some putz for $8300. The other pipes were pulled from eBay after Marty Pulvers, amongst others, got involved in the fray. The seller is still on eBay, representing Chinese factory pipes and the occasional bit of something else. With all of this money attached to certain names, it makes counterfeiting very profitable as buyers and sellers are pretty gullible.

 

[zack24]

It's an early Bo Nordh..The things we expect today like wide open draws, meticulous stem work, etc., weren't as expected in 1982...But it's a 1982 frikkin' Bo Nordh and it's a fair price for something that rare. Greta and I just went to the Dali museum in St Pete a couple of days ago, and seeing the body of someones work change over several decades, makes you realize that a great artist evolves over time...and the early work of Bo Nordh was a precursor of what was to come...

 

[cigrmaster]

saddle, I remember that incident. I believe we will see plenty more counterfits with the prices being as they are.

 

[ssjones]

Speaking of counterfeits, someone on another forum posted this pipe and believes if may be a fake.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dunhill-Bruyere-113-Estate-Pipe-Made-in-England-/131520587324?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e9f3ce63c

(this is the seller that Mary P believed was the infamous Kyle Black)

A Shape 113 sold by SmokingPipes

 

[peckinpahhombre]

I believe the infamous thread involved a "Jess" pipe that was likely a fake. Yeesh.

 

[cajunplume]

Well.. I guess this is worth it to the collector, but for me as a practical smoker this is WAY out of my range. WAY WAY out. I wouldn't pay more than 300$ for a pipe. Maybe one day....

 

[edgreen]

When I look at all the $300 dollar pipes I bought what I see is someone who could have not bought them and had a couple of those S.Bangs and Chonowitschs instead. Of course it probably would not have made it past the wife's approval like those $300 pipes and I would probably choke on one of them.
By the way, have you seen the Chonowitsch calabash listed today on ebay?

 

[halfy]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh holy...
I didn't see it. Otherwise I would have tried a higher attempt. And I would smoke it daily ...