Anyone collect or smoke figural carved briars?? (pic heavy)

[docwatson]

Just out of curiosity I'm wondering how many here smoke or collect figural carved briar pipes?? Displayed are a couple I've had for a while. The wild boar is unsmoked and carved by master pipe maker Bart Antoniewski of Poland, the long floral carving is from the late 1800's early 1900's, and lastly the carving of the late President Kennedy was carved for Ehrlich's in Boston in the 1960's.

 

[hobie1dog]

Darn, you just missed the thread on here last week ...of course Holmes couldn't even find it with our search engine....type in figural in the search box and zero, nothing. :twisted:

 

[hobie1dog]

http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/briar-figurals
Found it in General Pipe Smoking Discussion section.

 

[photoman13]

Great photos. That bore is magnificent.

 

[docwatson]

Thanks Hobie,

I thought there was a thread and tried the search to no avail so I just started another one.

@ photoman, thanks for the response, someday I'll light up that old boar as long as it doesn't bite!!

 

[tbradsim1]

Doc I have a old bulldog that I smoke, but nothing like you have, I don"t know if I would ever smoke those, too pretty the old cajun

 

[pawpaw]

That second pipe is one dam fine looking pipe