An Observation of the Coloring of Vintage Meerschaum
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Here are a few of mine that have colored due to me smoking them like a crazed mad man. They have all turned that pleasing shade of 'turd brown' with the exception of the one shown face down. That has different hues of 'shit' color with the foot of the pipe being a difference shade from the rest. All of these pipes have had the same tobacco smoked in them and that ranges from Gawith plugs and twists through to large amounts of Warrior Plug. Lately I have been on a Broken 7 and Bob's Chocolate Flake bender with equally large doses of Grasmere and Grousemoor plug but YMMV.
Match up the relevant pipes to the below picture from my monthly rotation from 2015
The Peterson African Meers are more readily available than the Turkish. Good luck with a Turkish meer Pete.. you might be looking at 200-300 even in bad condition just cause they’re so old and rare.
It’s like playing where’s Waldo but with 300 Waldos on the page.....real helpful....
It’s not like they’re all almost identical….....real helpful....
I always look forward to @condorlover1 ‘s posts about his cutty meers cause I get to hear about which shade of shit each meer reminds him of.
Ah yes, cutty meer number 302. This one resembles the shit that I took on July 8, 1998 the day after the Chinese take out.
Ah yes, cutty meer number 302. This one resembles the shit that I took on July 8, 1998 the day after the Chinese take out.
Right!!! They all look the same!!! Wait... Is that offensive??It’s not like they’re all almost identical…
OK. Pipe No:1 appears at 10.45, Pipe No:2 appears at 11.55 - match the silver collar of the BBB and pipe No:3 is easy to spot at 12.10 in the group phone, again match up the silver collar. They are all easy to tell apart, think like you have a Chinese wife and you will get the gist pretty quickly.
I found out that I can get a particular shape made out of meerschaum.
This should be interesting. So will we see different colored stems and different finishes? Maybe different color stummels as well?I found out that I can get a particular shape made out of meerschaum.
Do tell!!!I found out that I can get a particular shape made out of meerschaum.
I'm just assuming he's referring to the Sav shape he used to collect (forget the number) but I could be wrong.
Possibly, will have to see about prices and material availability, but I'm thinking 7 of them.
Though they have the variants 904/914/9004/9005, I'm probably going to go with the larger GBD 9613.
I should have known! Awesome idea! Who would the artist be?
I'll spill the beans after I see the results but he's a Turkish carver in the US.