Anyone Recognize this Pipe?
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Sorry no, at first i thought it was something i made in 3rd grade in arts and crafts but mine was better.
No idea... but now I want a decent, functional pipe with googly eyes. 
I'll sell you some rare antique googly eyes that have been cleaned and sanitized to my standards ....No idea... but now I want a decent, functional pipe with googly eyes.
In the ’50s, a lot of pipe companies from Italy made similar looking bull figural pipes like this—I have one from Savinelli’s Genova shop with a horn stem.
Over the years I have seen a number of "bull" pipes like that in various antique malls around the south. Either that are there is just one pipe and it travels from antique mall to antique mall.
I personally never have had the urge to buy one.
I personally never have had the urge to buy one.
No telling who carved that pipe. Maybe it's from an anonymous carver. The was a guy who spent years in a POW camp on Bataan that carved animal figure heads into bowls of pipes. Don't remember him doing one of these.
I have a similar style briar pipe that I purchased at a Pipe Show back in Chicago about 30/35 years ago. It's never been smoked, but I like the oddness of it. It has "MARXMAN" & Made in Italy" stamped on it. It is 6" long and a big piece of Briar. A few photos below:
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That vaguely reminds of something I read on this very site. What you may have there, sir, is possibly one of the greatest smoking pipes ever to exist, made of pure Algerian briar, the finest on the planet. If I'm not mistaken, a pipe exactly like that was smoked by the late great Saint Coprophagous, the One-Eyed of Chad. No stranger to a class act, he was often seen sporting it in some of the best bordellos in the world. Could it be the same one, I wonder?
