An Acquisition With A Story

[alaskanpiper]

I still think you have too many pipes tho!

You are 100% correct about that. I’ve been actively thinning the herd lately.

 

[Steddy]

The force is strong with you!
Congrats that is really special.
A treasure.

 

[macaroni]

ditto

 

[ssjones]

Great find! he's a real interesting guy, met him once at the NYC Pipe show. Is his cruise boat still active? He used to be an active participant in the PipeSmokersForumUK many years ago.

 

[paulfg]

not my style of pipe but a great back story
congratulations

 

[petes03]

Awesome find!

 

[alaskanpiper]

Great find! he's a real interesting guy, met him once at the NYC Pipe show. Is his cruise boat still active? He used to be an active participant in the PipeSmokersForumUK many years ago.

I am not sure if his cruise boat is still active. I know he stopped smoking a pipe, and subsequently stopped making pipes, due to a fairly significant health event. I am not sure if that impacted his cruise operation or not.

 

[jpberg]

Richard was one of those guys who came in hard and fast, and dropped out the same way.
It was the heyday of SF and NAR, good times for the high rollers.

 

[shanez]

Most excellent!

 

[ssjones]

Neill used to have a great blog entry on his "Sea Creatures" pipe creations, now lost to the internets. (I'm not sure the Wayback machine can retrieve them?)

 

[alaskanpiper]

Neill used to have a great blog entry on his "Sea Creatures" pipe creations, now lost to the internets. (I'm not sure the Wayback machine can retrieve them?)

There are some on his pipedia page

 

[Red Leader]

Incredible story and great pipe!

 

[PipeIT]

WOW, that’s awesome, the first pipe!

You’d think a carver would hang onto their first.

Big Congrats man! ???? Wow Wow Wow! ?

P.S. Now where can we find the second one? LOL ?

 

[alaskanpiper]

WOW, that’s awesome, the first pipe!

You’d think a carver would hang onto their first.

Big Congrats man! ???? Wow Wow Wow! ?

P.S. Now where can we find the second one? LOL ?

He did until he quit smoking for health reasons. Sold it in Chicago after that and it made its way here somehow.

 

[mso489]

What a catch, and getting the story on the pipe even more so. So many of my pipes have stories, but maybe none has an origin story quite as specific as yours. If only we could get the back story on all our pipes, what an anthology of tales that would be. Instead, it is all we can do to identify the date of manufacture. I bought a pipe from the award-winning N.C. pipe carver Bob Hayes in what turned out to be the last year of his life, and he made me a jaw-dropping offer the last hour of a pipe show. That kind of haunts me.

 

[alaskanpiper]

. If only we could get the back story on all our pipes, what an anthology of tales that would be.

I’ve had this thought many times. What a story they could tell. Intermittent snapshots of human life around the world. Bowls after momentus events, births, graduations, deaths. They could tell the story of every set of hands they have passed through, whether its for three weeks or the three decades. What a beautiful set of vignettes each pipe owns. Most of them forever shrouded in mystery.

But every once in a while a lucky piper like myself gets a small glimpse such as this. And even that is enough to brighten a day.

 

[alaskanpiper]

Richard was one of those guys who came in hard and fast, and dropped out the same way.
It was the heyday of SF and NAR, good times for the high rollers.

What are SF and NAR?

 

[jpberg]

What are SF and NAR?

Smokers Forum was a pretty popular site. Richard was a member. Neil Archer Roan was a member there, as had his own blog - “ A Passion for Pipes”.
It was arguably the preeminent forum while it was going, all the big dogs had a presence there.

 

[The Clay King]

You Lucky Bastard!!...................

 

[sandollars]

WOW! What a lucky find!