Are you serious? You have some amazing vintage pipes. You're not serious. If you want to send any of them to me, I'll pay the postage and bin them for you.
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I’m serious. Can’t control what happens after I’m worm food.
Nah, any of our earthly belongings are at risk. When the grieving (or not) family wants old junk gone, there is a cost to valuing and selling it that may be worth more than their time. The only difference between an old car and an old pipe that no one in the family wants is that the latter is easier to physically throw away.
I too, have always told my children that when my time comes, use their heads as most of my stuff has value. They need to think before just labeling it "junk". Thankfully, they know how to find something's worth.
I've thrown many into the trash and have told my kids to do the same with what's left when I'm gone. Just another unhealthy addiction that I don't wish to pass on to them.
How many pipe/cigar/tobacco collections have been thrown straight into the garbage by non smokers when they are left to sort through someone's things?
That is exactly what happened to my paternal grandfather's pipes and tobaccos after he passed. I would have given much to have had just one of his pipes as a tangible link to him in the long years since his death, but, alas, it was not to be...
Better yet, mail your Urn and pipes, and I’ll sprinkle you and the pipes out here, in the Hawiian Pacific Ocean, better than being worm food. LOL
P.S. I’ll put the pipes in a bag of lava rocks, so the pipes don’t float in the ocean! LOL
All 4 of my kids saw me sell 10 grand worth of pipes in a fairly short period this year and they know I kept the best ones and the most valuable. My oldest daughter when she was last here made the other three move shit around and got things organized. I explained tins are worth more money and to do their due diligence as to what things are selling for. They know how to contact pipestud or to sell things by themselves on the pipe sites like this. It will be up to them to figure out and I don't worry one bit about it.
The marriage between sentimentality and consumerism is an ugly one, and at no time is that made more apparent than after the death of a loved one. I've seen otherwise decent people (to say nothing of the not-so-decent people) become greedy fools arguing over who gets to keep what artifact from the deceased. Pipes get passed around as heirlooms, and people who didn't give two tugs of a dead dog's dick about the deceased will crawl out from the woodwork like roaches to foment strife and lay claim to utterly useless baubles that they will put in a box and toss in their basement the very next day.
If one is serious about avoiding these things, then a sensible will is the only real way to avoid it, and that includes what happens to our pipes. Which reminds me, I really should get on that and make sure a will is done.
Personally, I don't care what happens to me and my possessions upon death. To quote Frank Reynolds, "When I'm dead, just throw me in the trash." But I don't want my family and friends to squabble or to struggle unnecessarily. Get a will.
If one is serious about avoiding these things, then a sensible will is the only real way to avoid it, and that includes what happens to our pipes. Which reminds me, I really should get on that and make sure a will is done.
Personally, I don't care what happens to me and my possessions upon death. To quote Frank Reynolds, "When I'm dead, just throw me in the trash." But I don't want my family and friends to squabble or to struggle unnecessarily. Get a will.
Urns are too damn expensive.Better yet, mail your Urn and pipes, and I’ll sprinkle you and the pipes out here, in the Hawiian Pacific Ocean, better than being worm food. LOL
P.S. I’ll put the pipes in a bag of lava rocks, so the pipes don’t float in the ocean! LOL
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Worm food v. fish food. Even worms gotta eat.
"Saliva soaked" conjures up a disgusting image of some poor crippled old bloke, slumped in a chair drooling into a clenched pipe.
Maybe it's because I don't clench a pipe but I don't salivate excessively when puffing on my pipe.
The day I start salivating into my pipe is the day I'd hope that some kind soul would take me out back and put me out of my misery.
Only last week I was in the St Vinnies op-shop and made a point of telling the staff that old pipes are actually worth money and that I'd be happy to give them a rough valuation should they ever acquire any.
Told the manager of the Salvo op-shop the same last year.
They were surprised to hear that most estate briars are worth $10 at the least but if they snag a brand like Dunhill . . .
Told the manager of the Salvo op-shop the same last year.
They were surprised to hear that most estate briars are worth $10 at the least but if they snag a brand like Dunhill . . .
I drove by a giant goodwill store we have locally and was thinking about donations and estate sales and the frightening thought hit me. How many pipe/cigar/tobacco collections have been thrown straight into the garbage by non smokers when they are left to sort through someone's things
Until the mid/late 1980's non-historical pipes were considered "body contact personal items" like underwear, socks, or toothbrushes, and they were routinely disposed of.
The shift toward sanitizing and re-using them was largely the doing of a guy named Barry Levin, who bought them by the thousands for little money from (mostly) women whose husbands has recently died, turned the sound and worthy specimens over to Jimmy Cooke to be cleaned (the same JT Cooke who later became a highly respected pipe maker), took physical-print photos of them, and mailed those photos to a list of collectors.
He called them "Estate Pipes".
And the rest, as they say, is history.
It happens. A couple of years before the Pandemic, a well known pipe collector and historian passed away and his widow contacted a collector I know to find out if he could help her sell off the collrection. He sold quite a few pipes at Chicago. But, there was a "slight" hitch. Seems before she called the collector for help she and a friend dumped his cellar down the trash chute. Various Sobranie blends, Sullivan and Powell, Garfinkle's, actual Dunhill, etc, etc. A good 5 figures of rare tobacco blends went down that chute.
I've left instructions in my will, but since I'll be dead, who knows if the rare pipes I own will wind up in a landfill. Shit happens.
I've left instructions in my will, but since I'll be dead, who knows if the rare pipes I own will wind up in a landfill. Shit happens.
It happened to me once while reading,, face down and soaked up in the story. Didn't take long until I soaked the pipe. It's not exactly the proudest moment I ever had but not all that bad either. Being taken out of the moment and having to fiddle with pipe cleaners was worse. Kinda like sipping pipe juice.
And of course it was just a cheap and flawed basket pipe, with a good piece this wouldn't have happened.
Then again, as the gentleman above me said, shit happens.
Take them with you, so to speak. The twenty or so better ones will fit in the coffin.
As I have no children I often ponder this problem of what to do with my few collections once I shuffle off this mortal coil, but I think as stated above. Does it matter we will be worm food. If possible they should go to someone who can use it. If not then I hope they get put out as donations for estate pipes.
Well it's not like I have not ever thought the same.
A few years ago while in hospital, I was outside with a couple of patients puffing on my pipe while they smoked cigarettes, when one of them suddenly said "I wouldn't mind having a puff on Elrics pipe" to which I replied "Would you also like to borrow my toothbrush?"
No more needed to be said.
I'm not worried about my pipes being thrown away when I'm gone. I'm having a custom coffin build with side pockets so I can take them with me.