Albert Einstein's Pipes and Pipe Rack Auction

[james72]

For anyone interested. Came across this a few minutes ago.

RR Auction - https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/344786506178019-albert-einstein-39-s-9-pipes-and-menorah-pipe-holder/?cat=0

 

[sasquatch]

I have a pair of Shrodinger's shoes for auction too...

 

[theloniousmonkfish]

I have a pair of Shrodinger's shoes for auction too...

Still in the box?

 

[sasquatch]

Should I check?

 

[theloniousmonkfish]

Should I check?

So long as the box is intact they should be fine.

 

[telescopes]

So long as the box is intact they should be fine.

Hmmmm. There is a 50/50 chance on that.

 

[bayareabriar]

Since we’re on the subject; I think pair of shoes could be up there with a philosophical debate and it’s redundancy…or not.

 

[bayareabriar]

Since we’re on the subject; I think pair of shoes could be up there with a philosophical debate and it’s redundancy…or not.

Or is this a scientific debate.

 

[Chasing Embers]

If they actually are his, I wouldn't dare smoke them. Too many hallucinations already.

 

[burleybreath]

What are they worth if they're not Einstein's? Eight bucks? If they're truly his, I'd go to ten, with misgivings.

 

[mso489]

The pipes look like nothing Einstein was ever photographed smoking, if that matters. I think a prospective buyer would have to do a lot of research to evaluate the probabilities that the letter of provenance is accurate. A lot of personal effects wander around the world and look romantic and evocative, but don't have a sure narrative. Did Einstein's sculptor daughter have a pipe smoking boyfriend? Etc. Etc. They don't look like Albert to me, just from the photos I've seen and his personality as I have visualized it. The description in the letter doesn't convince me, and pipes were much more widely smoked in 1955 than they are today. If they weren't his, it's a subtle scam.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I have Einstein's shoe horn. I would own his Nokia flip-phone, but some bastard outbid me.

 

[anotherbob]

I have Einstein's shoe horn. I would own his Nokia flip-phone, but some bastard outbid me.
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You fool he never owned such a thing! The gull of thinking he ever needed a shoe horn. Seeshh.

 

[Briarberg]

Original owner aside, that menorah rack is sweet. I guess that extra ninth pipe could be the shamash. I wonder if tobacco lasts 8 times as long in these pipes.

 

[bullet08]

Everything is relative. If I didn't know, I would say Al's from WV.

 

[hauntedmyst]

You fool he never owned such a thing! The gull of thinking he ever needed a shoe horn. Seeshh.

Of course he did! He had to make all those cockamamie theories fit some how.

 

[anotherbob]

Of course he did! He had to make all those cockamamie theories fit some how.

you use a hammer for that. Now I am not going to spell it all out you'll have to do the math to figure out what type of hammer he used for that.

 

[germinal]

"Closed At: $100,000"

Yikes.