Antique Store Cleaned Up and Ready for Smoking

[Fralphog]

I picked up this House of Robertson pipe at an antique store a little over a week ago. Here are the before and after pictures. I was really pleased with the end result and look forward to smoking this pipe.

 

[jhowell]

Good job!

 

[plugugly]

WOW!

 

[MCJ]

Nice Looking Pipe!

 

[ashdigger]

Good job.

I have a question, what did you do with the rest of the store?

 

[SBC]

That is a really unique looking full bent rhodesian! Great find. And pipedia tells me that this is a local make for you, too -- congrats!

 

[Fralphog]

Good job.

I have a question, what did you do with the rest of the store?

Good catch.
Sentence structure, nouns, verbs... object of the preposition.
Funny how one missing noun, pipe, can change the whole meaning.

 

[Doctor Chopper]

Nice acquisition! Nice and clean looking.

 

[LOREN]

Good job.

I have a question, what did you do with the rest of the store?

Took me a while but I get it

 

[blackpowderpiper]

Bravo! Enjoy the pipe.

 

[OverMountain]

Great find!

 

[UB 40]

Nice

I picked up this House of Robertson pipe at an antique store a little over a week ago. Here are the before and after pictures. I was really pleased with the end result and look forward to smoking this pipe.
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Nice pipe!

 

[Grangerous]

Doesn’t look like the same pipe! What a treasure!

 

[kcghost]

You did a real nice job on this pipe.

 

[AJL67]

I hear the doors require more than an avg number of relights but leave little moisture in the bowl.

 

[mikethompson]

Good job.

I have a question, what did you do with the rest of the store?

As soon as I read the title, I knew this comment would pop up.

That is a really unique looking full bent rhodesian! Great find. And pipedia tells me that this is a local make for you, too -- congrats!

Agreed - a good clean can bring out a depth of grain and it worked very well on this unique pipe.

Enjoy it for years sir!

 

[reloader]

Good looking pipe brother! Great job on the clean up.

 

[dunnyboy]

Good job! Looking at your pipe with its broad flat, smooth rim, it makes me wonder if the bulldog/rhodesian evolved from the calabash.

 

[Arthur Frayn]

It's a lot of fun to find treasures like that one at antique shops and then clean them up. You did a fine job there.

Where I am, the seller often wants upwards of $40-$60 a pipe for some chewed through junkers. but every now and again, I have seen some CustomBilts or Savs of GBDs. lots of basket no names around here. One time I saw a newer Radice that somebody totally torched the rim with a jet lighter. I should have taken a picture. What a waste. Still, anytime I can look I like to do it.

 

[FurCoat]

Good job. The pipe is beautiful.