9 Estate Pipes, Gifted to me, Pics attached

[smokenscotch]

Hello all. Yesturday, I was very fortunate to have been gifted 8 Estate Pipes from an old neighbour. I recenly saw my old neighbour from my old neighbourhood that I grew up in. I remembered her husband (RIP, passed away 2 years ago) always had a pipe going, day and night. When we were kids, we could smell that pipe on the street and it smelled so good. I stopped her the other day on the street and asked what type of tobacco her husband smoked. Without a pause, she said "Erinmore, he always smoked Erinmore". We then caught up a bit and I advised her that I had taken up the pleasure of pipe smoking. Without hesitation, she said, "stop by the house, you can have his pipes, I have no use for them now and I didn't know what to do with them." I have attached the pics. They are in desperate need of attention, which I will enjoy bringing them back to life. I figured I would show you the before photo's and then the after photo's, which I'm sure will take me quite a while due to my busy work schedule. This is what I could find on them. All but one have markings of some sort. I'm not sure what the one is without markings, could be a basket pipe for all I know. I have printed off some re-furbashing points about pipes and oxidation, oxyclean, salt and alcohol treatment, etc..but anything else you can tell me, including info on these pipes would be greatly appreciated. One of them is a Danmore of Denmark, huge pipe. Another one is a Stanwell Bulldog style but with such faded wording, I can't tell what model? Any tips for cleaning these up would be awesome and if you know ages of some of these perhaps? They could be anywhere from 40 years to current, he always had a pipe for over 30 years that I know of.. Enjoy.
In the order of photo's, they are
Stanwell Sterling 75

Danmore of Denmark

Stanwell Majectic 32

Stanwell Royal Briar 75M

Brigham 509

Stanwell Bulldog?

Stanwell 169

Peterson Delux 12 1/2 S

And the unknown

I also received this humidor and pipe rack.

 

[papipeguy]

Nice little collection. Good luck with them. Just make sure you mask the stems when you polish the silver bands.

 

[buckeye]

Nice :puffpipe:

 

[patiobum]

Very nice.
Would like to see your after restoration pics.

 

[mluyckx]

Very nice gift ! Get her some flowers in return ;-) look forward to the after pics.
Can't help you with the dating though. Looks like he was a stanwell guy.
Good luck

 

[tokerpipes]

All of them look great. A good cleaning is all I see that they need.

 

[olderthandirt]

Handsome group there. At first glance it looks as though they should all clean up nicely.

 

[smokenscotch]

Thanks everyone, I will certainly enjoy cleaning them up. Just wondering, I notice that many times, people on this forum will reply to someones statement showing it above their reply. Is there something you have to click, or do you just highlight the part you want to reply to and then copy and paste it?

 

[ace57]

Copy and paste. You got some nice pipes. Enjoy.

 

[nsfisher]

u got a darn nice bunch of pipes there mate, they gonna clean up nice. enjoy

 

[markw4mms]

Very nice collection you scored! That was very nice of her to give them to you. I'm also looking forward to the after pics!

 

[pufferissimo]

They sure are lovely pipes !

Smoke'em with good memories.
Im having a Stanwell fever and geez..your pic are not helping...

 

[spartan]

Sad news about your neighbor's husband. Damn nice of her to gift those pipes to you!
Some of those stems look like a pitbull had their way with them. Nasty lookin.
To quote someone just copy the messeage and use the "quote" button. Put one at the front and one at the end of the message you are quoting.
Can't wait to see the finished products!
Happy Smoking. ::

 

[smokenscotch]

Copy and paste. You got some nice pipes. Enjoy.

Like this?
Thanks Ace57 and Spartan for the help with the copy and paste thing.

 

[uberam3rica]

Nice pipes you got. They do need some TLC, but I'm sure they will clean up fine. Good luck cleaning them. That was really nice of her to give you those pipes, How old are they? I'm in the process of tracking down my grandfathers pipes. He died almost 30 years ago, so all his pipes are at least that old

 

[hauntedmyst]

Awesome estates! Those should clean up beautifully!

 

[bbauer]

Those are some great looking pipes. You should have a lot of fun fixing those up. I spent my whole holiday season fixing up some estate pipes and I had a great time.
@uberam3rica I currently am doing the same thing. Someone in the family (hopefully) has my grandfathers old pipes. I dont even ever remember him smoking a pipe, but my mom and all of her siblings remember it. They are pretty sure someone has them, its just about finding out who. Good luck to you though

 

[ssjones]

You'll have some fun bringing them back. I'm digging that XL Pete, it should restore nicely!

 

[lonestar]

Your neighbor had fine taste in pipes and tobacco.

Every one of them is a really good pipe.

As mentioned, they should all clean up pretty well except for some serious tooth gouges I see in a few of them.

Its hard to tell, but I've seen pipes that old timers actually filed tooth marks into to make it more confortable to hold. One or two of them look like this might be the case ?

I bought a collection once where every pipe had a long gouge filed in the stem just past the button, and they were actually really comfortable to clench.

 

[hnryclay]

WoW enjoy!