Any Love For The Boer Shape? Show Them Here!

[towhee89]

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Thats a beaut . Thanks for sharing that !!! I think the Stromboli may be the hardest to find in that Safari shape.

 

[joeman]

Very nice pipe, sir.

 

[UltraBlue]

Hello there,
Just got this BBB and I like it very much.
Never seen a BBB in this shape before.
Any help getting it dated is appreciated.
Thanks

 

[UltraBlue]

At 456 grams, this pipe may be illegal in many states.

 

[UltraBlue]

At 456 grams, this pipe may be illegal in many states.

 

[towhee89]

Hello there,
Just got this BBB and I like it very much.
Never seen a BBB in this shape before.
Any help getting it dated is appreciated.
Thanks

It's basically a Jobey made by Weber. I saw that in a lot on the bay and was curious, that must be it. Didn't BBB have pipes made by LHS too? I forget. Not many if so.

 

[UltraBlue]

It's basically a Jobey made by Weber. I saw that in a lot on the bay and was curious, that must be it. Didn't BBB have pipes made by LHS too? I forget. Not many if so.

I sincerely doubt that BBB would put the stamp OWN MAKE, which was expressly designed to indicate those made in their London shop, and source it from elsewhere.
OWN MAKE meant done by BBB from beginning to end.

 

[towhee89]

I sincerely doubt that BBB would put the stamp OWN MAKE, which was expressly designed to indicate those made in their London shop, and source it from elsewhere.
OWN MAKE meant done by BBB from beginning to end.

I still think it was made in the USA and even has the EXTRA stamp used on Jobey pipes. Does it say expressly Made In England?

This is where I saw that BBB exist made in USA:

BBB Made By L&H Stern Co? :: British Pipes

Here is a BBB that was possibly made by LHS. I hope the BBB collectors chime in with any information. There are too many similarities to just be coincidence. Besides the fact that LHS pipes are great burners, the scarce information and mystery surrounding L&H Stern piques my curiosity of this...

pipesmagazine.com

 

[UltraBlue]

I still think it was made in the USA and even has the EXTRA stamp used on Jobey pipes. Does it say expressly Made In England?

This is where I saw that BBB exist made in USA:

BBB Made By L&H Stern Co? :: British Pipes

Here is a BBB that was possibly made by LHS. I hope the BBB collectors chime in with any information. There are too many similarities to just be coincidence. Besides the fact that LHS pipes are great burners, the scarce information and mystery surrounding L&H Stern piques my curiosity of this...

pipesmagazine.com

At the beginning, BBB produces two qualities. One, BBB Own Make, other pipes being simply estampillées BBB. Own Make in fact were produced in London (Reject pipes cuts year R stamped one them.), whereas the simple BBB were imported, and this, to the paddle of the 20th century.
Pipepedia

 

[tartanphantom]

No sir… enjoy them all you want, but just not a shape for me.

I have a buddy who lives a county over from me whobreeds, raises and sells Tennessee mules. Quite a lucrative hobby, considering what they sell for.
I‘ve seen way more donkey nuts at his farm than I care for, and I have no appetite for letting anything even closely resembling that ever getting near to my pie-hole!

But enjoy— different strokes and all that, and definitely a unique design for a pipe.

I think I’ll let Falcons and Kirsten pipes be the outer rings of my design limits.

 

[UltraBlue]

No sir… enjoy them all you want, but just not a shape for me.

I have a buddy who lives a county over from me, and he breeds, raises and sells Tennessee mules. I‘ve seen way more donkey nuts at his farm than I care for, and I have no appetite for letting anything even closely resembling that ever getting near to my pie-hole!

But enjoy— different strokes and all that, and definitely a unique design for a pipe.

I think I’ll let Falcons and Kirsten pipes be the outer limits of my design limits.

And I don’t like chocolate.
So what’s the point….

 

[tartanphantom]

And I don’t like chocolate.
So what’s the point….

“Any Love for the Boer Shape?” is the question right in The name of the thread.

I read the entire thread, I made my statement, beginning with the phrase “Enjoy them all you want…”
You made yours. We have different aesthetic tastes. That is all.

Enjoy your Boers. The fact that I don’t care for them simply means that there’s more for those who do.

Am I missing something, or are differences of opinion not permitted in this thread?

 

[snagstangl]

https://pipedia.org/wiki/The_General_and_the_Captain:_Two_Period_Pipes_of_the_Early_Twentieth_Century

 

[justscience]

I have several. I need to round them up for a family portrait. They feel wonderful in my hand, don't get hot and don't look like a spinal column.

 

[anotherbob]

No sir… enjoy them all you want, but just not a shape for me.

I have a buddy who lives a county over from me whobreeds, raises and sells Tennessee mules. Quite a lucrative hobby, considering what they sell for.
I‘ve seen way more donkey nuts at his farm than I care for, and I have no appetite for letting anything even closely resembling that ever getting near to my pie-hole!

But enjoy— different strokes and all that, and definitely a unique design for a pipe.

I think I’ll let Falcons and Kirsten pipes be the outer rings of my design limits.

I agree with everything but the mules. I just don't have much experience with mules. Meet one or two they seemed smart and funny and stubborn. Never paid attention to their nuts.
But yeah the pipe shape is just off to me. Looks melted to me.
Falcons are uglies but I love them.

 

[anotherbob]

“Any Love for the Boer Shape?” is the question right in The name of the thread.

I read the entire thread, I made my statement, beginning with the phrase “Enjoy them all you want…”
You made yours. We have different aesthetic tastes. That is all.

Enjoy your Boers. The fact that I don’t care for them simply means that there’s more for those who do.

Am I missing something, or are differences of opinion not permitted in this thread?

I mean I can see why a fan would be defensive.

 

[MisterBadger]

Never seen one of these. All the cartoons of Boers I've seen (and a cartoon Boer in Victorian Britain is almost inseparable from his pipe) show them smoking Hungarians/Oom Pauls. Never seen any of a Boer smoking what appeared to be an upside-down pot, either. I wonder how the name stuck?

@towhee89, @justscience, @joeman - are they a significantly better/differemnt smoke from any other design?